Fearance v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Thus, we may say that the repeated stabbing of [the victim] by appellant while astride him is enough . . . to find that it was done deliberately, and, perforce, intentionally.”
• evidence that defendant repeatedly stabbed victim shows intent to murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Franklin v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1988-09-15· cited 852×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-25· cited 672×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Bigby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-11-02· cited 509×
• Matchett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 343×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-07-06· cited 254×
• Marquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-01-14· cited 246×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-08· cited 228×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 192×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-04-13· cited 169×
• Farris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 160×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-20· cited 146×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 144×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-11· cited 134×
• Fearance v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-07· cited 134×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-15· cited 95×
• James v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-04-26· cited 80×
• Mann v. Scott
  Fifth Circuit· 1994-12-16· cited 74×
• Wardrip v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-10-03· cited 74×

Cites

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

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-29· cited 3,217×
• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Granviel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-11-10· cited 244×
• Duffy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-07· cited 182×
• Livingston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 133×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-01· cited 126×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-15· cited 109×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-11-10· cited 105×
• Heckert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-02-25· cited 100×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-28· cited 91×
• Grijalva v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-10· cited 82×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-03-01· cited 74×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 58×
• Pierson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-29· cited 52×
• Coffee v. William Marsh Rice University
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1966-10-27· cited 51×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-10· cited 49×