Almanza 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 appellant must show erroneous charge caused egregious harm preventing fair and impartial trial
• holding that appellant must show erroneous charge caused egregious harm preventing fair and impartial trial
• holding that “an error which has been properly preserved by objection will call for reversal as long as the error is not harmless”
• holding that in absence of request or objection, jury charge error does not require reversal unless “egregious harm” is established
• holding that if error is found in jury charge and defendant fails to object to such error, defendant must show egregious harm
• holding that when there is no objection at trial, reversal is required if appellant shows egregious harm resulted from error in the jury charge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5,013 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ngo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-16· cited 2,169×
• Ladd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 1,900×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Patrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-20· cited 1,680×
• Guevara v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-20· cited 1,613×
• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Hutch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-03· cited 1,524×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-05-19· cited 1,320×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,305×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 1,170×
• Casey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-02-28· cited 971×
• Rhoades v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 959×
• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-15· cited 953×
• Saldano v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-03-13· cited 942×
• Neal v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-18· cited 903×
• Paulson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-10-04· cited 872×
• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 804×
• Ovalle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-03-08· cited 800×
• Arline v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-12-10· cited 777×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-05-05· cited 762×

Cites

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

• Cumbie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-28· cited 245×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 203×
• Cobarrubio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-01-12· cited 175×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-07-13· cited 135×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-06· cited 132×
• Boles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-07· cited 131×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-30· cited 127×
• Doyle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-28· cited 125×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-07· cited 108×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-23· cited 106×
• Bishop v. State
  Texas Supreme Court· 1875-07-01· cited 106×
• Braudrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-01· cited 101×
• Dowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-04-20· cited 88×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-12-06· cited 63×
• Sattiewhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-07· cited 63×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-01-21· cited 57×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-07-06· cited 52×
• Bellah v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-04-26· cited 51×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-09-22· cited 44×
• Messenger v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-09-22· cited 43×

Other cases named Almanza v. State

12 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-12· cited 20×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-16· cited 15×
• Almanza v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-09-02· cited 13×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-03-06· cited 11×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-05-04· cited 9×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-09-25· cited 2×
• Almanza v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-06-03· cited 2×
• Almanza v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-10-15· cited 1×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-03-19
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-07-12
• Almanza v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-10-31
• Almanza v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-03-23