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.

• recognizing that statement must provide more than general allusion of abuse to satisfy requirements of the outcry witness statute
• holding that where the record was void of specific details of statements made to an individual, the individual was not properly designated an outcry witness
• recognizing that statement must provide more than general allusion of abuse to satisfy requirements of the outcry witness statute
• holding that statement about offense “must be more than words which give a general allusion that something in the area of child abuse was going on.”
• holding that the outcry witness must be the first adult “to whom the child makes a statement that in some discernible manner describes the alleged offense”
• holding that a Child Protective Services worker was the proper outcry witness when the complainant told her teacher only that something had happened at home relating to child abuse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-06-15· cited 1,100×
• Bargas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-05-13· cited 283×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-10-02· cited 239×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-02· cited 209×
• Broderick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-10-26· cited 200×
• Vinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-01-16· cited 165×
• Shaw v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-11-09· cited 126×
• Fleming v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 118×
• Chapman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-10-21· cited 110×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Lee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2000-05-31· cited 107×
• Zarco v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-12-21· cited 103×
• Sims v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2000-03-06· cited 94×
• Ozuna v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-08-10· cited 91×
• Bays, Michael Jay
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-04-17· cited 88×
• Reyes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-02-11· cited 86×
• Nino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-05-08· cited 86×
• Reynolds v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-05-31· cited 83×
• Thomas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-08-10· cited 81×
• Hanson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-11-22· cited 75×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Osborne v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-04· cited 897×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1988-11-10· cited 5×