Cooper 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 fists may be deadly weapons depending on the manner of their use where defendant caused infant's death by severe blows
• defendant used hands as a deadly weapon by dropping infant to floor
• defendant used hands as a deadly weapon by dropping infant to floor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 169×
• Adame v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-03-06· cited 133×
• Gillum v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-03-08· cited 63×
• Jefferson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-07-30· cited 49×
• Brooks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1995-06-02· cited 41×
• People v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1992-06-29· cited 33×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-12-29· cited 8×
• Dixon v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-07-17· cited 7×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-05· cited 5×
• People v. Ross
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1991-11-12· cited 3×
• Vasquez, Rodolfo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-11-26
• Jose Fonseca Najera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-11-13
• Devlin Jefferson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-07-30
• Jimi Hofmann v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-07-08
• W. Gabriel Taylor and Wife, Iris Taylor v. Thirkield J. Wilder
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-04-30
• Larry Samuel Palmer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-12-05
• in Re: Gary W. Lowe
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-09-24
• Jose Martin Guevara v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-10-28
• Douglas Dwane Shirley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-09-06
• Javier Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2003-12-04