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.

• Indictment which failed to allege the manner in which the defendant \started a fire\ was insufficient.
• Indictment which failed to allege the manner in which the defendant “started a fire” was insufficient.
• after determining that indictment for arson using statutory term \start a fire\ was insufficient because \start a fire\ was undefined, we did not proceed to define \start a fire\
• defendant alleged to intentionally A start a fire @ held insufficient to give notice of charge against him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nethery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-22· cited 365×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-02-05· cited 324×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-01· cited 261×
• State v. Mays
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-04-15· cited 208×
• State v. Edmond
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 198×
• Bayless v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-12-18· cited 179×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-18· cited 39×
• Taylor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-07-30· cited 33×
• State v. Sandoval
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-12-17· cited 29×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-05-15· cited 29×
• Krebsbach v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1998-04-07· cited 26×
• Craddock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-11-08· cited 22×
• Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1989-01-13· cited 17×
• Mustard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-04-29· cited 15×
• Bynum v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1986-04-30· cited 13×
• Cook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-02-20· cited 12×
• State v. Campbell
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2000-07-26· cited 10×
• Sipple v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2001-01-10· cited 6×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1987-02-25· cited 5×
• Kennedy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1987-05-14· cited 4×

Cites

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

• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-07-01· cited 428×
• American Plant Food Corporation v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-24· cited 339×
• Brasfield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-18· cited 278×
• Ferguson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-23· cited 211×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-03-26· cited 182×
• May v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 152×
• Drumm v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-11-02· cited 150×
• Haecker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-18· cited 128×
• Gorman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-23· cited 108×
• Parr v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-09-27· cited 80×
• Jeffers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-02· cited 79×
• Marrs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-23· cited 77×
• Queen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-11-23· cited 70×
• Cruise v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-19· cited 66×
• Few v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-26· cited 54×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-11-02· cited 49×
• Coleman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-11-03· cited 48×
• Cameron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1966-02-23· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-12· cited 34×