Cormier v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• deciding under-Almanzathat appellant failed to show that egregious harm resulted from court’s failure to define reasonable doubt in punishment charge, without deciding whether court erred
• deciding under Almanza that appellant failed to show that egregious harm resulted from court's failure to define reasonable doubt in punishment charge, without deciding whether court erred
• applying Almanza “egregious harm” standard to failure to define “reasonable doubt” in instruction on burden of proof for extraneous offense evidence admitted during punishment phase
• applying Almanza standard to failure to define \reasonable doubt\ in instruction on burden of proof for extraneous offense evidence admitted during punishment phase
• applying Almanza \egregious harm\ standard to failure to define \reasonable doubt\ in instruction on burden of proof for extraneous offense evidence admitted during punishment phase
• no evidence that defendant was harmed by absence of “reasonable-doubt” definition in punishment charge where definition present in guilt-innocence charge and punishment deliberations began less than 24 hours after guilt-innocence charge given

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Poole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-07-30· cited 196×
• Harner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-06-23· cited 147×
• Cano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-08-31· cited 136×
• Edwards v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-12-02· cited 64×
• Espinosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-10-12· cited 43×
• Miranda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-04-29· cited 38×
• McQueen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1998-12-11· cited 38×
• Fields v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1998-03-25· cited 37×
• Huizar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1998-03-18· cited 35×
• Gholson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-12-02· cited 25×
• Matz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-03-25· cited 23×
• Valdez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1999-06-23· cited 18×
• Frazier v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-03-15· cited 17×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-18· cited 14×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-07-01· cited 12×
• Coleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-11-18· cited 11×
• Torres v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-09-15· cited 5×
• Marvin Harvey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-05-31· cited 3×
• Cucancic v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-08-25· cited 3×
• Rodney Dale Summerville v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2005-11-15