Abbott v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that the jury could infer defendant’s intent to arouse or gratify his sexual desire from his act of touching child’s genitals
• conducting a harm analysis under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 44.2(a) after determining that the State's closing argument was improper where it misstated the law on the burden of proof
• conducting a harm analysis under Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 44.2(a) after determining that the State’s closing argument was improper where it misstated the law on the burden of proof
• “It is conceivable that a number of errors may be found harmful in their cumulative effect.”
• jury could infer from defendant’s conduct in touching child’s genitals that it was done with intent to arouse and gratify his sexual desire
• jury could infer from defendant’s conduct of touching child's genitals that it was done with the intent to arouse and gratify his sexual desire

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

94 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-02-10· cited 84×
• Villanueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-10-18· cited 67×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-05-28· cited 48×
• Benton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-09-12· cited 41×
• Navarro v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-10-03· cited 41×
• Quincy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-09-30· cited 34×
• David Browne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-31· cited 15×
• Abbott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-03-12· cited 14×
• Terrell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-05-23· cited 14×
• Duffey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-12-19· cited 11×
• Carr v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-03-19· cited 5×
• Damon Orlando Milton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2018-01-23· cited 1×
• Matthew Ryan Jerry Vanover v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-09-03
• Howard Harris, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2014-12-12
• Ronald Gene Grizzle, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2015-01-19
• Alice Annette Steele v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-03-23
• Domingo Navarro v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-03-22
• Davey Regene Kinnett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-03-06
• Jimmy Acosta Brite v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-06-10
• in the Interest of T. J. K., a Child
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-11-15

Cites

57 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-12-18· cited 3,887×
• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• Wesbrook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 2,816×
• Dewberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-20· cited 2,718×
• Zuniga v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-04-21· cited 2,472×
• Ladd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 1,900×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 1,894×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-27· cited 1,350×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-05-19· cited 1,320×
• Krulewitch v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1949-03-28· cited 1,293×
• Adelman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 1,143×
• Satterwhite v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1988-05-31· cited 926×
• Colburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-02-25· cited 754×
• Broxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-04· cited 738×
• Rezac v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-17· cited 732×
• Goodman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-11-21· cited 682×
• Chamberlain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-06-16· cited 676×