Alexander v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that ownership may be proved in three ways: title, possession, or a greater right to possession than defendant
• “Ownership of the burglarized premises may be proven in one of three ways: (1) title, (2) possession, or (3) a greater right to possession than the defendant.”
• “The Legislature, while constructing the present Penal Code, . . . chose to disregard [a narrow] definition in favor of a single, general definition which incorporated the ‘greater right’ theory and was unlimited in application.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-09-28· cited 138×
• Villani v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-08-19· cited 52×
• MacK v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-07-17· cited 52×
• Gregg v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1994-08-31· cited 45×
• Alexis Elaina Walker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2018-02-21· cited 39×
• Shawn Pierre Lee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-07-30· cited 32×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1990-01-04· cited 23×
• Epps v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2000-07-06· cited 17×
• Leocadio Ramirez Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-02-12· cited 17×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-08-23· cited 16×
• Alexander v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-12-21· cited 14×
• Morrow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-19· cited 13×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-23· cited 8×
• St. Julian v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-18· cited 4×
• Koehl v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-24· cited 3×
• Allison, Shawn Keith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-07-03· cited 2×
• Benton, Freddie L. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-10-10
• Marcus Edward Gay v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-11-01
• Stephen Charles MacKay v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-02-14
• Lonnie Dwayne Pope v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2007-03-22

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-02· cited 145×
• Compton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-08· cited 119×
• Sharpe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-20· cited 101×
• Ellett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-12· cited 61×
• Ex Parte Davis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-20· cited 57×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-11· cited 44×
• Dingler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 42×
• Smallwood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-19· cited 41×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-22· cited 38×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-01· cited 37×
• Cross v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-12· cited 22×
• Gilbreath v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1953-06-17· cited 13×
• Chambers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1982-02-18· cited 11×
• Salas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-16· cited 10×