Avila 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 trial court properly excluded expert testimony concerning defendant’s training with handguns and effect of this training on defendant’s mental state in committing offense
• “[I]n order for expert testimony concerning the mental state of the accused at the time of the offense to be admissible, the expert must base his opinion in large part on the history of domestic violence between the defendant and the victim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Arzaga v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2002-08-29· cited 239×
• Martin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-12-13· cited 91×
• Alonzo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 91×
• Marsh v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-06-10· cited 75×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2000-04-06· cited 70×
• Taulung v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-11-18· cited 56×
• Hanks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2003-03-27· cited 41×
• O'BRIEN v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-11-27· cited 37×
• Harwood v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1997-11-26· cited 32×
• Hayes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-01-15· cited 29×
• Nevarez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-10-24· cited 28×
• Valdez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1999-06-23· cited 18×
• Alonzo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-01-12· cited 8×
• Acosta v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-04· cited 2×
• O'Brien, John Phillip v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-10-24
• Hayes, Shannon Eugene v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-11-20
• Manuel Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-05-25
• Michael Lee Fuller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-10-02
• Randy Thomas McGhee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-07-15
• Mark Irwin Stevens v. Lynn Stevens
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-09-21