Brooks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that because there is no evidence that the deceased was making an attack or threatening an immediate attack upon a third person, the evidence could not have led the defendant to reasonably believe that his intervention was immediately necessary to 9 protect the third person
• referring to voluntary manslaughter as a lesser included offense of murder
• because there was 30 no evidence that the deceased was attacking or threatening immediate attack upon a third person, evidence could not have led defendant to reasonably believe his intervention was immediately necessary to protect the third person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dillon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-22· cited 372×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-16· cited 271×
• Nobles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-10· cited 267×
• Lugo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-03-14· cited 252×
• Sattiewhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-10-25· cited 187×
• Simpkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-31· cited 177×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-03· cited 148×
• Dowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 136×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-20· cited 114×
• Clifton Fransaw v. James A. Lynaugh, Interim Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-02-23· cited 95×
• Nance v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1991-04-11· cited 66×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-13· cited 51×
• Rocha v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-13· cited 42×
• Harrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-28· cited 40×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-13· cited 39×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-08-13· cited 32×
• Randle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 32×
• Pimentel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1986-05-21· cited 28×
• Torres v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-12-16· cited 27×
• Sadler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-02-26· cited 24×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-12-08· cited 57×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-04-02· cited 29×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-19· cited 20×
• Borroum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1960-01-06· cited 16×
• Allala v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1952-05-14· cited 11×
• Short v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1931-04-22· cited 7×
• Sistrunk v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-10-18· cited 6×
• Cordosa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1932-01-20· cited 2×