Bray 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 warrantless search of apartment’s bathroom conducted by police officer, who entered premises after fire department personnel informed officer that there was no immediate danger and left the scene, was not justified by emergency doctrine
• adjudging that “[ojfficers may enter a building where a ‘body’ has been reported, for the report of death may be inaccurate and it may be possible to revive the body.”
• stating “[a] warrantless search may be justified by a need to act immediately to protect or preserve life or to prevent serious injury”
• presence of man who was “very intoxicated” as a result of injection of some type of narcotics not an emergency to warrant entry
• police arrived at residence after medical personnel assessed situation, concluded there was no emergency, and left
• police arrived at residence after medical personnel assessed situation, concluded there was no emergency, and left

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• Hulit v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-12-16· cited 227×
• Becknell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 136×
• Kenneth Lee Douds v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-06-05· cited 77×
• Janicek v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-09· cited 66×
• Pine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-22· cited 46×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-10-04· cited 44×
• Roth v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-11-15· cited 40×
• Roeder v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1988-12-29· cited 36×
• Tuffiash v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1997-05-21· cited 32×
• Steven Cole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-12-18· cited 27×
• Rauscher v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-01-29· cited 24×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-01-19· cited 24×
• Torrez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-12-21· cited 23×
• State v. Mountford
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2000-12-29· cited 22×
• Gipson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-06-26· cited 21×
• Montelongo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-27· cited 18×
• State v. Marli Shealyn Elrod
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-02-27· cited 17×
• Rheinlander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-01-11· cited 15×
• Eatmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-08-28· cited 14×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San Francisco
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-05· cited 3,591×
• McDonald v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-12-20· cited 1,736×
• Michigan v. Tyler
  Supreme Court· 1978-05-31· cited 1,386×
• Helen Frances Sutton Root v. Isabel H. Gauper
  Eighth Circuit· 1971-02-25· cited 124×
• Corbett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-01· cited 78×
• Perez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-23· cited 19×
• Tijerina v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-21· cited 18×