Baird 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 statutes are interpreted according to rules of grammar and assuming every word was meant to serve a discrete purpose
• noting that, at a suppression hearing, “a trial judge is free to believe or disbelieve any part of the testimony as he sees fit”
• explaining that the trial court is the “sole arbiter” of factual/credibility disputes
• statute is ambiguous when the language it employs is “reasonably susceptible to more than one understanding”
• statute is ambiguous when the language it employs is \reasonably susceptible to more than one understanding\
• affirming denial of suppression where defendant hired woman to care for his dog while away, invited her to help herself to anything, told her to keep the bedroom door closed to keep the dog out, and did not expressly forbid her from using his computer, on which she found child pornography

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thompson, Ex Parte Ronald
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-09-17· cited 164×
• Cortez, Damien Hernandez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-17· cited 157×
• Arteaga v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-07· cited 146×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-07· cited 90×
• Ruiz, Lauro Eduardo
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-07-03· cited 70×
• Chase, Ryan Francis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-11-19· cited 69×
• Lang, Terri Regina
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-11-21· cited 68×
• Delay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-10-01· cited 56×
• Samaripas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-10-15· cited 37×
• Prichard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-28· cited 33×
• Ex parte Shires
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-29· cited 20×
• Miranda Renea Kelso v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2018-09-28· cited 14×
• State v. Cameron William Varley
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-31· cited 12×
• Knott v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-02-10· cited 12×
• Dailing v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-03-22· cited 11×
• Devon Alexander Kane v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2015-02-11· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-04-13· cited 7×
• Michael Wade Pache v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2013-10-16· cited 6×
• Selman Halili v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-04-24· cited 5×
• In the MATTER OF M.I.S., a Juvenile
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-19· cited 5×

Cites

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

• State v. Ross
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-11-29· cited 3,729×
• Illinois v. Rodriguez
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 2,581×
• Florida v. Jardines
  Supreme Court· 2013-03-26· cited 1,615×
• Wiede v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31· cited 1,369×
• State v. Cullen
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-28· cited 924×
• Liparota v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 890×
• Valtierra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-05-05· cited 747×
• Derichsweiler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-01-26· cited 542×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-09· cited 424×
• McQueen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-08· cited 330×
• Hubert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-05-26· cited 294×
• State v. Sheppard
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-12-10· cited 279×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-05-14· cited 124×
• Tapps v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-09-30· cited 120×
• Ex Parte Rieck
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-09-15· cited 108×
• Mahaffey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-04-25· cited 83×
• Cornet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-01-25· cited 79×
• Ivey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-02-11· cited 75×
• Limon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-06-15· cited 66×
• Jenschke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-20· cited 51×