Daniel 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 absent evidence that anyone other than the defendant caused the victim’s death, no causation instruction was required
• holding that absent evidence that anyone other than the defendant caused the victim’s death, no causation instruction was required
• concluding that when appellant elected jury punishment before trial, it was not error for jury to assess punishment because “[t]here [was] no consent of the attorney for the State to change [appellant’s] election” to court-assessed punishment
• as used in statute \mistake\ and \accident\ mean \unintentional\
• no error for the jury rather than judge to assess punishment when the defendant asked the trial court to submit his application for probation to the jury, and “[t]here [was] no consent of the attorney for the State to change his election”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tyra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-26· cited 199×
• Ex Parte Rathmell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 163×
• Combs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-08· cited 155×
• Wooten v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-07-22· cited 80×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-08-07· cited 63×
• Glauser v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2001-05-16· cited 60×
• In re Johnston
  New York Court of Appeals· 1990-03-27· cited 37×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-09-28· cited 31×
• Contreras v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-01-27· cited 25×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-12-09· cited 21×
• Henry v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-01-11· cited 15×
• Hayes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1982-05-20· cited 14×
• More v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-23· cited 14×
• Mendoza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-10-08· cited 13×
• Travis Lynn Grubbs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-22· cited 13×
• Westbrook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1985-09-11· cited 12×
• Zani v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-08-31· cited 5×
• Ex parte May
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-11· cited 5×
• Larry Douglas Henry v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-01-11
• Jerry Lee Flores v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2003-11-06

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Allaben v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-06-28· cited 137×
• Singletary v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-22· cited 99×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-03· cited 40×
• Logan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-06-10· cited 34×
• Fox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1942-10-28· cited 18×
• Thomason v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1964-12-09· cited 11×
• Spraglin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1960-03-16· cited 6×