75.81 Acres of Land, More or Less, Situate in Grayson County v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• adopting intermediate standard and reversing and remanding to trial court for its determination based on that standard; trial court held cap unconstitutional on remand
• “Nothing in art. 1, § 18, either explicitly or implicitly prohibits legislative modification of common law actions.”
• “allowing [political] signs only if they are inside a house and three feet back from windows is equivalent to not allowing signs at all”
• remanding to lower court for determination whether statute limiting total recovery in medical malpractice actions to $300,000 was constitutional under heightened scrutiny test; on remand, trial court ruled that cap violated equal protection
• remanding for factual determination on whether a medical malpractice crisis actual existed
• remanding for factual determination on whether medical malpractice crisis actually existed
• "Privacy in the sense of freedom to withhold personal financial information from the government or the public has received little constitutional protection"
• questions concerning whether police officer invoked the privilege against self-incrimination at a grand jury hearing are not job-related