Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1988
Journal Title
Texas Bar Journal
ISSN
0040-4187
Abstract
Many Texas attorneys consulting older decisions for guidance breathe sighs of mental relief when they read a Texas Supreme Court case, rather than one of those pesky Court of Appeals or Commission of Appeals decisions with an arcane writ history or "judgment adopted" designation. After all, Texas Supreme Court cases are the top of the heap, precedent-wise, unless they have been overruled. Right? Well, maybe. In Texas, there are good and bad vintages for Texas Supreme Court opinions. The Civil War and Reconstruction years, from 1861 through 1873, are a particularly interesting legal vinyard.
Surprisingly enough, despite the century or more that separates these opinions from the present day, questions of precedential value still arise with some regularity.
First Page
916
Volume Number
51
Publisher
State Bar of Texas
Recommended Citation
Jim Paulsen & James Hambleton,
Confederate and Carpetbaggers: The Precedential Value of Decisions from the Civil War and Reconstruction Era,
51
Tex. B.J.
916
(1988).
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https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/27