Faulkner 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 “common sense” reading of warrant demonstrated that warrant was “ordering the seizure of the contraband which formed the basis of the affidavit”
• holding that affidavit is made part of warrant when incorporated by reference and two are stapled together
• holding that affidavit is made part of warrant when incorporated by reference and two are stapled together
• noting that affidavits must be read in common sense and realistic fashion
• “[I]n interpreting affidavits and search warrants, magistrates and courts must do so in a common sense and realistic fashion and avoid hypertechnical analysis.”
• where warrant authorized a search of the suspected premises and to “seize same,” a “common sense” interpretation of the warrant, guided by the request in the affidavit to seize any marijuana found in the premises, controlled

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 112×
• Madrid v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-31· cited 78×
• Arrick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-04-24· cited 55×
• Ashcraft v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1996-12-05· cited 54×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-18· cited 39×
• State v. Tipton
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-01-29· cited 23×
• Reese v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-30· cited 16×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-03-30· cited 15×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-08-29· cited 15×
• State v. Saldivar
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-12-19· cited 11×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-01· cited 9×
• Greene v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-11-17· cited 7×
• Anthony Fernando Strange v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-09-18· cited 6×
• Teeters v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1981-11-12· cited 4×
• Lindley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-24· cited 2×
• Joseph v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-10-26· cited 1×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-08· cited 1×
• Jerry Dale Pratt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2005-12-22
• Jason Alan Arrick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-04-24
• William Loyd MacEachran v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-10-11

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Ventresca
  Supreme Court· 1965-03-01· cited 4,171×
• Phenix v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-07-19· cited 94×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-03-20· cited 46×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-03-20· cited 41×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-02-20· cited 23×