Brown 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 a defendant voluntarily possessed marijuana in a correctional facility when he was compelled to enter a correctional facility while in possession of marijuana
• concluding evidence sufficiently established appellant voluntarily took marijuana into a jail under sections 6.01(a) and 38.11(b)
• rejecting argument that evidence was insufficient to support conviction for possessing contraband in correctional facility because defendant was taken to correctional facility against his will after being arrested
• rejecting argument that evidence was insufficient to support conviction for possessing contraband in correctional facility because defendant was taken to correctional facility against his will after being arrested
• construing an offense under section 38.11(b) of the Texas Penal Code involving the possession of marihuana in a correctional facility to require a culpable mental state of intentional or knowing
• rejecting arguments similar to Harper’s in a case discussing sufficiency of the 5 evidence and concluding the possession of a controlled substance by a person brought to jail after his arrest did not prevent prosecution under Section 38.11(b

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-05-21· cited 169×
• Peavey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-03-12· cited 95×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-12· cited 71×
• Hayes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-01-15· cited 29×
• National Cafe Services, Ltd. v. Podaras
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2004-08-04· cited 19×
• State v. Eaton
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-02-12· cited 19×
• State v. Alvarado
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2008-12-26· cited 13×
• Herring v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-02-23· cited 12×
• Herron v. Commonwealth
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 2010-02-23· cited 11×
• State v. Caquelin
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2005-05-11· cited 10×
• Barrera v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2017-10-13· cited 9×
• People v. Ward
  Michigan Supreme Court· 2009-06-12· cited 6×
• Taylor v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2010-06-17· cited 5×
• State v. Gneiting
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2020-07-15· cited 3×
• Alex Trenton Beltz v. State of Alaska, State of Alaska v. Lesli Renee Richardson
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 2024-06-07· cited 2×
• Hayes, Shannon Eugene v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-11-20
• Danielle Marie Dickerson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-11-16
• Karen L. Wilson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2003-05-22
• Markum Woodrow Peavey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-03-12
• Ervin Dwain Mason v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-12-03

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Adanandus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 505×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-10· cited 193×
• Alford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-24· cited 155×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-12-13· cited 18×