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.

• holding defendant entitled to self-defense instruction when she shot husband who was advancing on her with his hand behind his back, and he had earlier threatened to kill her
• finding defendant was entitled to a self-defense charge even where she stated she did not intend to shoot the gun that killed the victim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Warren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-24· cited 141×
• VanBrackle v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-11-04· cited 106×
• Bounds v. Caudle
  Texas Supreme Court· 1977-11-30· cited 101×
• Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-12-09· cited 47×
• Sanders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-12· cited 37×
• Ogas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1983-06-07· cited 33×
• Randle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 32×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-11· cited 15×
• Mewes v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1973-12-26· cited 11×
• Berry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-30· cited 7×
• Charles Ray Carter v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-04· cited 5×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-27· cited 3×
• Gerald VanBrackle v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-11-04
• ROGERS, WILLIAM v. the State of Texas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2023-10-18

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gavia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-29· cited 43×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-12-18· cited 25×
• Vanwright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-01-07· cited 11×
• Rice v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1951-06-06· cited 9×
• Roberson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-05-17· cited 5×