Chapman 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’s requested instruction need not be in “perfect form,” but rather “sufficient to apprise the trial judge of the objection to the charge.”
• holding that a defendant’s requested instruction need not be in “perfect form,” but rather “sufficient to apprise the trial judge of the objection to the charge.”
• holding that defendant preserves error if request is specific enough to put trial court on notice of omission or error in charge; requested charge need not be “in perfect form,” but only sufficient enough to call error to trial court’s attention
• holding requested instruction coupled with defense counsel’s statements to the trial court sufficient to preserve error
• holding that a defendant preserves error if a request is specific enough to put the trial court on notice of an omission or error in the charge; the requested charge need not be ―in perfect form,‖ but only sufficient enough to call error to the trial court‘s attention
• holding that a defendant preserves error if a request is specific enough to put the trial court on notice of an omission or error in the charge; the requested charge need not be “in perfect form,” but only sufficient enough to call error to the trial court’s attention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-03-16· cited 413×
• Solis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1997-08-13· cited 320×
• Francis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-12-06· cited 305×
• Ex Parte Moreno
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-02-06· cited 120×
• Wynn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-11-09· cited 104×
• Gamino, Cesar Alejandro
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-09-27· cited 96×
• Ford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-03-08· cited 89×
• Bohnet v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-02-27· cited 44×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-07-01· cited 38×
• Rivera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1998-10-29· cited 37×
• Harkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-29· cited 35×
• Carmen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-11-20· cited 32×
• Mendenhall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-03-22· cited 29×
• Butler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-10-22· cited 22×
• Sparks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-01-27· cited 22×
• Timothy Morales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-06-14· cited 16×
• Isaac v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-05-26· cited 14×
• Rue v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-08-19· cited 4×
• Chapman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-12-23· cited 4×
• Donald Sparks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-01-27

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-29· cited 171×
• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-10· cited 96×
• Stiles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-26· cited 68×
• Polk v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 54×
• Chapman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-07-08· cited 25×