Gaona v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the evidence was legally sufficient to support rejection of sudden passion, noting that the decedent was already walking away at the time of the murder
• holding victim’s yelling at, arguing with, cursing at, and demanding to fight defendant did not “amount to an adequate cause to support a finding of sudden passion”
• we defer to fact finder’s determination of credibility of testimony and weight to give evidence
• “While it is undisputed that Benavides yelled at, argued with, cursed at, and demanded to fight appellant, those actions do not amount to an adequate cause to support a finding of sudden passion.”
• discussing evidence to support jury’s rejection of self-defense claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Amon Tawanda Dzwairo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2016-07-25
• Delridge Jermaine Clark v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2016-11-02
• Edgar Miguel Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2017-07-19
• Myo Naing Swe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2017-07-17
• Steven Craig Debusk v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2017-07-27
• Jesus Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2018-05-17
• James Edward Hightower v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-06-27
• Leonard Mornes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-08-08
• Manuel Fino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-08-13
• Willie Deshun Wade v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-02-27
• Marvin Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2019-08-01
• Jacob Nathan Ross v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-08-05
• Juan Gonzales, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2019-08-08
• Johnelle Renee Hall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2020-04-21
• Christopher Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2020-08-18
• Javier Sobrevilla Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2020-08-20
• Randall Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2020-09-29
• Cedric Dewayne Thompson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2021-04-14
• Keithion Dywane Derrick v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2021-08-24
• Ryan Matthews v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2022-11-10

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Zuliani v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-05· cited 1,844×
• Saxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-27· cited 1,233×
• Wise v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-04-25· cited 562×
• Montgomery, Jeri Dawn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-06-20· cited 410×
• Matlock, Marcus Dewayne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-02-27· cited 351×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-08-24· cited 190×
• McKinney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-16· cited 160×
• Butcher, Charles E. Ii
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-01-28· cited 94×