Briggs v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the constitutionality of a statute is not to be determined unless absolutely necessary to decide the case
• a criminal statute must give the person of ordinary intelligence a reasonable opportunity to know what is prohibited, so that he may act accordingly
• “An enactment is not vague merely because it is imprecise.” (internal citations & quotations omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Briggs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-05-16· cited 598×
• State Ex Rel. Lykos v. Fine
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-01-12· cited 429×
• Bynum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-15· cited 394×
• Hai Hai Vuong v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-08· cited 352×
• Santikos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-03· cited 252×
• Quintana v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1989-08-31· cited 168×
• Casarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-12-13· cited 112×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-18· cited 95×
• Fetterolf v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-14· cited 72×
• State v. Garcia
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1992-01-31· cited 60×
• Sullivan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1999-02-12· cited 54×
• State v. Wofford
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-11-30· cited 53×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 43×
• King v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-11-10· cited 42×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-11· cited 39×
• State v. Fry
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-04· cited 31×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-06-21· cited 30×
• DeWillis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-08-21· cited 30×
• State v. Sandoval
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-12-17· cited 29×
• Byrum v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-01· cited 26×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Grayned v. City of Rockford
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-26· cited 4,586×
• Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-03· cited 3,694×
• Parker v. Levy
  Supreme Court· 1974-06-19· cited 1,846×
• Coates v. City of Cincinnati
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-01· cited 1,269×
• United States v. Mazurie
  Supreme Court· 1975-01-21· cited 1,043×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 550×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-15· cited 131×
• Parent v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-23· cited 95×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-10-12· cited 55×
• Ferguson v. Estelle
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-10-31· cited 50×
• Margaret S. v. Edwards
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-07-18· cited 42×
• Coberly v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-01-26· cited 37×
• Skinner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-20· cited 35×
• Daniel Ross Umphlet v. Harry Connick, District Attorney
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-05-06· cited 29×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1962-05-16· cited 27×
• McDonald v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1985-05-16· cited 17×
• Hypke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-09· cited 14×
• Briggs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-05-13· cited 8×
• Carrasco v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1986-06-12· cited 7×
• United States v. Kenneth Preston Westbrook
  Ninth Circuit· 1987-05-14· cited 6×