Delay v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that sufficiency review sometimes “involves simply construing the reach of the applicable penal provision in order to decide whether the evidence, even when viewed in the light most favorable to conviction, actually establishes a violation of the law”
• holding that a statutory requirement that a defendant knowingly commit an offense under the Election Code required the State to prove “the actor was actually aware of the existence of the particular circumstance surrounding that conduct that renders it unlawful”
• recognizing that, under § 1.07(38), a “person” includes a corporation
• observing that, for non-penal code penal provisions, “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity”
• defendant found guilty by a jury but convictions reversed due to insufficient evidence, including insufficient evidence of mens rea
• defendant found guilty by a jury but convictions reversed due to insufficient evidence, including insufficient evidence of mens rea

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Cited by

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

• Cary v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-14· cited 286×
• Perry, Ex Parte James Richard \Rick\
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-24· cited 183×
• Lang, Terri Regina
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-11-21· cited 68×
• Canada v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-08-17· cited 33×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-02-15· cited 19×
• Charles Newman Smith, Jr. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-30· cited 4×
• Ex parte Harvin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-09-21· cited 4×
• State v. Robert Blankenship
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-06-29
• Perry, Ex Parte James Richard \Rick\
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-03-02
• Cary, David Frederick
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-28
• James Michael Reser v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2016-10-25
• Edgar Penaloza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2016-11-30
• Stacy Stine Cary v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2016-12-15
• Joseph Frank Tooker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2017-10-27
• Jose Louis Villarreal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2017-12-01
• Sidney Alex Work v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2018-05-24
• Robert Thomas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2019-08-27
• Kevin Ratliff v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2020-02-14
• Crystal Mason v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2020-03-19
• Stahmann, Karl Dean
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2020-04-22

Cites

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

• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-10-06· cited 6,365×
• Malik v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-10· cited 4,984×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-10-03· cited 2,009×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 1,894×
• United States v. X-Citement Video, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1994-11-29· cited 1,064×
• Liparota v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-05-13· cited 890×
• Osterberg v. Peca
  Texas Supreme Court· 2000-02-08· cited 736×
• Garza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31· cited 460×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-03-21· cited 367×
• McQueen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-08· cited 330×
• Ex Parte Ellis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-04-28· cited 194×
• Celis, Mauricio Rodriguez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-15· cited 191×
• Cheney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-29· cited 169×
• United States v. Craig B. Sokolow
  Third Circuit· 1996-07-26· cited 136×
• Geick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-10-05· cited 111×
• Azeez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-03-05· cited 100×
• Heckert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-02-25· cited 100×
• State v. Colyandro
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 98×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1999-03-09· cited 87×
• Wehrenberg, Michael Fred
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-12-11· cited 85×

Other cases named Delay v. State

5 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Delay v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1988-05-13· cited 22×
• Delay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-08-25· cited 11×
• Delay v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-05-11· cited 6×
• Delay v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1934-05-08
• DeLay v. State
  Court of Claims of Illinois· 1925-05-01