Coleman 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 evidence is not insufficient merely because appellant offered a different explanation for the facts
• noting that a person can “use” a weapon without exhibiting it, but not the other way around
• holding that the “cumulative effect” of evidence regarding the home’s large amounts of drugs and money in proximity to the guns “could have allowed a rational jury to determine that [defendant] used the weapons to protect the narcotics and the proceeds therefrom.”
• stating that defendant’s proximity to guns at time of search is not dispositive
• finding a link between the accused and the drugs when the drugs are found in an enclosed space
• finding a link between the accused and the drugs when the drugs are found in an enclosed space

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lane v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-12-08· cited 485×
• Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-07-28· cited 143×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2005-12-12· cited 126×
• Plummer, Marquis Andre
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-09· cited 84×
• Newby v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-07-08· cited 48×
• Safian v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-03-21· cited 47×
• Sanchez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-10-31· cited 45×
• Taylor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-10-13· cited 41×
• Quincy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-09-30· cited 34×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-11-12· cited 26×
• Herring v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-09-27· cited 23×
• Goben v. Commonwealth
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2016-12-15· cited 22×
• Bahr v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-08-10· cited 21×
• Gary Donell Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2012-12-06· cited 20×
• Damian Ricardo Flores v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-10-01· cited 18×
• Hubert v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-03-31· cited 17×
• Amaro v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2009-08-19· cited 10×
• Torres v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-06-28· cited 9×
• Tellez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2005-06-29· cited 8×
• Josue Ignacio Castillo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-07-12· cited 8×

Cites

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

• Muscarello v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1998-06-08· cited 848×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-08· cited 417×
• United States v. Ceballos-Torres
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-07-06· cited 300×
• Cates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-04-16· cited 215×
• Tyra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-26· cited 199×
• Ex Parte Beck
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-22· cited 183×
• Mann v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-10-03· cited 161×
• Rankin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-06· cited 121×
• United States v. Tom Wilkinson Eastland, and Cullen Reed Harris
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-04-14· cited 114×
• United States v. Dwayne E. Head (90-3288), Edward A. Black (90-3442), Tony F. Swanson (90-3467), Jacob Stewart (90-3480)
  Sixth Circuit· 1991-03-18· cited 99×
• Gale v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-05-19· cited 98×
• United States v. John Noble
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-04-05· cited 94×
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-04· cited 94×
• United States v. Charles Zimmer
  Sixth Circuit· 1994-01-12· cited 93×
• United States v. Stanley Starks and Latray McMurtry
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-11-04· cited 86×
• United States v. Ernest James North
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-05-15· cited 70×
• United States v. Alejandro Cantero, Also Known as Alex Cantero and Salvador Arteaga-Bernal
  Seventh Circuit· 1993-06-14· cited 67×
• Beal v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-12-18· cited 63×
• United States v. Terry Moses
  Sixth Circuit· 2002-05-07· cited 62×
• United States v. McFadden
  First Circuit· 1994-01-19· cited 51×