Garcia 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 in cases in which prior relationship between victim and accused is material issue, evidence of prior bad acts may be admissible for purpose of illustrating nature of relationship
• holding that admission of the “car dumping” incident did not violate rule 403 because “there is no reason for us to believe that the jury had reasonable doubt that appellant murdered Lesa but convicted him anyway based on the evidence of the car dumping incident”
• holding that probative value was not substantially outweighed by danger of unfair prejudice when court had no reason to believe that jury had reasonable doubt that Appellant murdered victim but convicted him anyway based on evidence of prior violence against victim
• holding that probative value was not substantially outweighed by danger of unfair prejudice when court had no reason to believe that jury had reasonable doubt that Appellant murdered victim but convicted him anyway based on evidence of prior violence against victim
• noting that the proper measure for “substantially outweighed” versus “unfair prejudice” asks whether the jury convicted the defendant based on the prior bad act evidence despite having a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt for the charged offense
• noting that the proper measure for “substantially outweighed” versus “unfair prejudice” asks whether the jury convicted the defendant based on the prior bad act evidence despite having a reasonable doubt as to the defendant’s guilt for the charged offense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nisbett, Rex Allen
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-06-27· cited 253×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2008-01-03· cited 52×
• Alami v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-01-20· cited 51×
• Brock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-01-26· cited 39×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-06-02· cited 29×
• Alexander v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2007-05-02· cited 26×
• Mario Gomez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-08-16· cited 26×
• Miguel Chavez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-03-18· cited 7×
• Price v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-07-06· cited 4×
• Ronnie Lee Price v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-07-06
• Zachary Daniel Harris A/K/A Zachary Harris v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-12-04
• Rolando Vasquez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-09-04
• Christopher Calvin Kennedy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-06-19
• Kenneth Matthew Starn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-04-03
• George Daniel Smith, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-03-20
• in the Matter of B. P. S.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-08-06
• Charles R. Branch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-05-16
• Kimberly Michelle Alexander v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2007-05-02
• Gregory D. Bolton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2008-11-19
• Damon Earl Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-11-16

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 7,264×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Dowthitt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-26· cited 1,429×
• Burnett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-30· cited 362×
• Robbins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-23· cited 235×
• Nguyen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-22· cited 206×
• Arcila v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 182×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-15· cited 136×
• Donovan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-01-30· cited 120×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-09-25· cited 96×
• Foy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-06· cited 58×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-11-12· cited 25×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2005-01-26· cited 9×