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 the undefined term “voluntarily” in section 20.04(d) of the Penal Code is ambiguous because it is susceptible to different meanings
• explaining that a defendant does not “voluntarily release[] the victim in a safe place” in the context of Section 20.04(d) if the victim is rescued or escapes
• explaining that a defendant does not \voluntarily release[] the victim in a safe place\ in the context of Section 20.04(d) if the victim is rescued or escapes
• explaining that interpreting the word “voluntary” in section 20.04(d) “is 7 likely to effectuate the legislative purpose of Section 20.04(d) of encouraging kidnappers to release their kidnap victims”
• noting that the primary concern for the statute was the victim’s safety and considering examples such as a victim tied to railroad tracks or being left in twenty-degree weather in the snow
• holding action cannot be voluntary where element of rescue by police exists

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Laster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-01-14· cited 1,627×
• Ex Parte Chandler
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-04-13· cited 353×
• Butcher, Charles E. Ii
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-01-28· cited 94×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-02-04· cited 81×
• Ballard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-04-08· cited 55×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-07· cited 53×
• Storr v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-01-22· cited 51×
• David Shane West v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-07-02· cited 45×
• Conley v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2013-09-26· cited 30×
• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-28· cited 27×
• Clark v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2005-12-01· cited 21×
• Patterson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-02-18· cited 19×
• John Christopher Dominguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2015-03-25· cited 18×
• Cooks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-06-02· cited 16×
• Girdy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2005-10-18· cited 12×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2003-05-30· cited 7×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-12· cited 5×
• Patterson, Jr. Jimmy Ray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-06-19
• Joe W. Dickson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-04-09
• Gary Cooks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-06-02

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boykin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 1,829×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,305×
• Adanandus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 505×
• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-12-04· cited 291×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-12· cited 190×
• Faust v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 1997-04-28· cited 157×
• Alford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-24· cited 155×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-01-17· cited 139×
• Aguirre v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-08· cited 103×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 91×
• Teer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-24· cited 56×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-11-13· cited 55×
• Wiley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1991-12-18· cited 49×
• Teer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1995-04-05· cited 20×