Fowler v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing denial of a motion to suppress where officer observed the citizen’s tires cross into an adjacent lane of traffic with no cars in the area
• noting absence of evidence that traffic maneuver was performed in unsafe manner and stating that “[a]n officer’s reasonable suspicion of an alleged traffic violation cannot be based on a mistaken understanding of traffic laws.”
• addressing section 545.060(a) and holding that absent any testimony by officer of busy traffic or other factors indicating unsafe maneuver such as crossing over into oncoming traffic, there was no evidence that the “failure to drive in a single lane was unsafe”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mahaffey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-04-25· cited 83×
• Leming v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-13· cited 83×
• Bracken v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2009-01-15· cited 41×
• State v. Lindsey Nichole Houghton
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-10-25· cited 38×
• Fernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2010-02-11· cited 34×
• Norris Shannon Baines v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-11-03· cited 30×
• Scardino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2009-08-26· cited 28×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2010-03-11· cited 12×
• Foster v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-11-04· cited 12×
• State v. Javari Edward Police
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2012-01-04· cited 12×
• State v. Cameron William Varley
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-31· cited 12×
• Erick Lionel Miller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-12-05· cited 11×
• Christopher Charles Meadows v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-11-15· cited 5×
• Boyett v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-02· cited 5×
• John Ricky Carter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-07-01
• Kerry Kent Hughes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-11-20
• Robert David Bracken v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-01-15
• Ryan Cameron Foster v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-08-06
• Mary Bohannan v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-08-06
• Eddie Ray Diaz, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-07-23

Cites

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

• Terry v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 37,942×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Berkemer v. McCarty
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 4,856×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-11-29· cited 3,729×
• Carmouche v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-01-26· cited 3,205×
• Romero v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-21· cited 2,504×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-09· cited 1,663×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-01-30· cited 1,505×
• Estrada v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-01-26· cited 1,056×
• Montanez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-04-26· cited 952×
• State v. Ballard
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-02-24· cited 884×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-04-18· cited 766×
• Oles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-05-26· cited 692×
• Best v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-09-25· cited 687×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-07· cited 566×
• McQuarters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-20· cited 283×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-12-17· cited 281×
• Corbin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-05· cited 279×
• State v. Ballman
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-01-20· cited 257×
• State v. Guzman
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-28· cited 219×