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 trial judge must refrain from making any remark calculated to convey his opinion of the case because jurors give special and peculiar weight to the language and conduct of the trial judge
• holding that a trial judge must refrain from making any remark calculated to convey his opinion of the case because jurors give special and peculiar weight to the language and conduct of the trial judge
• concluding that jury may infer intent from any facts in evidence
• noting that instruction could violate Article 36.14 “less obviously” by singling out evidence and “inviting the jury to pay particular attention to it”
• stating jury may infer intent “from any facts in evidence which it determines proves the existence of such intent to kill, such as the use of a deadly weapon”
• stating intent to kill can be inferred from defendant’s “use of a deadly weapon”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Walters v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-12-05· cited 850×
• Coble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-10-13· cited 848×
• Kirsch, Scott Alan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-01-25· cited 725×
• Estrada v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-16· cited 582×
• Bartlett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-11-26· cited 318×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-12-15· cited 256×
• Kirsch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-02-10· cited 235×
• Proenza, Abraham Jacob
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-11-15· cited 225×
• Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-03-25· cited 148×
• Morales, Jose Manuel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-11-09· cited 122×
• Deener v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2007-02-14· cited 100×
• in Re Commitment of Dennis Ray Stuteville
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-10· cited 85×
• Ortiz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-08-10· cited 84×
• Patterson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-07-08· cited 76×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-16· cited 76×
• Simon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-09-28· cited 71×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-25· cited 63×
• Boones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-06-06· cited 47×
• Lucio, Pedro Ariel Zarate
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-11-09· cited 47×
• In re J.G.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-02-01· cited 47×

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Francis v. Franklin
  Supreme Court· 1985-04-29· cited 2,053×
• County Court of Ulster Cty. v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-04· cited 1,990×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-27· cited 418×
• Aguilar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-09· cited 410×
• Mercado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-22· cited 310×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-18· cited 283×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-05-16· cited 210×
• Morrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-12-16· cited 119×
• Mendoza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-23· cited 115×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-09· cited 106×
• Watts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-12· cited 94×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-10-04· cited 61×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2002-12-19· cited 49×
• Lam v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2000-06-16· cited 48×
• Browning v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 47×
• Atkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-06-09· cited 27×
• Peterson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1997-03-26· cited 16×