Travelers Indemnity Co. of Illinois v. Fuller

How courts have described this case

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• holding that plaintiff suing under the Texas wrongful death act could not recover exemplary damages when her claim for compensable damages was barred by the worker’s compensation act
• recognizing that the open-courts provision generally “restricts the legislature’s ability to withdraw all legal remedies from one having a cause of action well established and well defined in the common law”
• explaining that dicta is mere expression of opinion on issue not necessarily involved in case and does not create binding precedent
• explaining that dicta is mere expression of opinion on issue not necessarily involved in case and does not create binding precedent
• explaining that dicta is mere expression of opinion on issue not necessarily involved in case and does not create binding precedent
• holding dicta is “a mere expression of opinion on a point or issue not necessarily involved in the cases which does not create binding precedent under stare decisis”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).