Castillo v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding existence of money and jewelry left behind in victim’s possession does not negate that murder was in course of robbery
• for accomplice testimony to be sufficiently corroborated, “there must simply be some non-accomplice evidence which tends to connect appellant to the commission of the offense alleged in the indictment”
• for accomplice testimony to be sufficiently corroborated, \there must simply be some non-accomplice evidence which tends to connect appellant to the commission of the offense alleged in the indictment\
• “The death penalty does not violate the Eighth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Grotti v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-25· cited 678×
• Figueroa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-04-14· cited 126×
• Jimenez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-09-27· cited 53×
• McMahon Contracting, L.P. v. City of Carrollton
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2009-03-17· cited 50×
• Medrano, Carlos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-01-27· cited 26×
• Aviles-Barroso v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-27· cited 23×
• Reese v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-11-07· cited 22×
• Hardy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-01-10· cited 19×
• Delacruz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-01-29· cited 19×
• Long v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-10-04· cited 18×
• Esteban Ruiz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-08-04· cited 18×
• Walker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-06-23· cited 15×
• Sebastian Nathanial Roys v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2013-11-08· cited 14×
• Medina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-11-14· cited 13×
• Gallardo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2007-07-25· cited 13×
• Hicks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-04-29· cited 12×
• Cook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-06-06· cited 11×
• Cesar Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-07-02· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2009-01-29· cited 9×
• Luciano Vargas Padilla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-03· cited 8×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 4,543×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• McDuff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-22· cited 1,412×
• Solomon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-20· cited 1,266×
• Threadgill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-13· cited 818×
• Rocha v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-04-12· cited 402×
• United States v. Sonya Evette Singleton, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Amicus Curiae
  Tenth Circuit· 1999-01-08· cited 308×
• United States v. Sonya Evette Singleton
  Tenth Circuit· 1998-07-10· cited 287×
• Gribble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-20· cited 251×
• United States v. Jack Hutchins Haese
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-01-15· cited 164×
• United States v. Adalberto Cervantes-Pacheco, Jerry Wayne Nelson and William E. Nelson
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-08-21· cited 151×
• United States v. Richard D. Barnett Virgil R. Drake
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-12-29· cited 66×
• Pannell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-29· cited 63×