Cordova 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 testimony that appellant was “crazy drunk” was insufficient to require a mitigation instruction
• stating that juror’s potential bias, when reviewing the testimony as a whole, did not show “that such would cause him to be unwilling or unable to obey the law or follow the oath of a juror”
• evidence that defendant was intoxicated or “crazy drunk” when he committed the crime does not automatically mean he was then temporarily insane by reason of voluntarily ingesting intoxicating substance
• evidence that defendant was intoxicated or “crazy drunk” when he committed the crime does not automatically mean he was then temporarily insane by reason of voluntarily ingesting intoxicating substance
• evidence that defendant was “crazy drunk” insufficient to show temporary insanity
• evidence that defendant was ″crazy drunk″ insufficient [ ] to show temporary insanity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Franklin v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1988-09-15· cited 852×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-22· cited 826×
• Heiselbetz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-20· cited 653×
• Allridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-13· cited 612×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-20· cited 561×
• Richard Gerry Drinkard v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-10-07· cited 372×
• Miniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-22· cited 290×
• Mooney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-02· cited 223×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 216×
• Havard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 215×
• People v. Capistrano
  California Supreme Court· 2014-08-04· cited 207×
• Little v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-03-23· cited 199×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-05-17· cited 175×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-07· cited 174×
• Adolfo Gil Hernandez v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 2000-05-30· cited 165×
• Cockrum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-14· cited 163×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-05-03· cited 159×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 147×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-20· cited 146×
• Raby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-04· cited 140×