Chen 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 that based on evidence the defendant was communicating with an undercover officer posing as a child over the internet, the doctrine of legal impossibility did not apply when completing the crime “was apparently possible” from the standpoint of the defendant
• stating that if the officer had been a 13-year-old girl, what the defendant intended to accomplish would have been an actual crime
• stating that if the officer had been a 13-year-old girl, what the defendant intended to accomplish would have been an actual crime
• stating that if the officer had been a 13-year-old girl, what the defendant intended to accomplish would have been an actual crime
• stating that if the officer had been a 13-year-old girl, what the defendant intended to accomplish would have been an actual crime
• stating that if the officer had been a 13-year-old girl, what the defendant intended to accomplish would have been an actual crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Thornton, Gregory
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-02· cited 270×
• Herrin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-12-18· cited 167×
• Bien v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-06-06· cited 51×
• State v. Stone
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-04-01· cited 39×
• Dornbusch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-03-24· cited 34×
• State v. Young
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 2004-06-29· cited 17×
• Cook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-06-06· cited 11×
• Gibbs v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2008-12-31· cited 3×
• State v. Gary Wayne Stone
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-04-01
• Nickolas Eric Kosick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2007-08-31
• Lamar Elmer Smith, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-03-16
• Phillip Ashcraft v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-07-31
• Bruce Earl Godlock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-08-20
• Joe Alan Cook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-06-06
• Elias A. Martinez v. Fidelis C. Abigide and Willie Brooks
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2003-08-14
• Michael Edward Kilpatrick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2005-12-06
• John Perry Dornbusch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-01-27
• Mark A. Clark v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-02-19
• Timothy Herring v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-01-16
• in the Interest of A.L.D.H., a Child
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2012-04-10

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Flanagan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 221×
• Lawhorn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-05· cited 60×
• Van Bell v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 30×
• Yalch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-20· cited 25×
• People v. Grant
  California Court of Appeal· 1951-07-11· cited 24×
• State v. Lopez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-09-13· cited 13×