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 that pretext arrest is no longer a viable defense as a matter of Fourth Amendment jurisprudence
• holding that an officer may lawfully stop and reasonably detain a person for a traffic violation
• holding that even if arresting officer had second subjective reason for stopping vehicle, trial court erred in suppressing evidence because officer had objective reason for arrest when defendant failed to stop at stop sign
• holding that even if arresting officer had second subjective reason for stopping vehicle, trial court erred 7 in suppressing evidence because officer had objective reason for arrest when appellant failed to stop at stop sign
• stating that any peace officer may arrest without warrant a person found committing a violation of subtitle C of title 7 of the Transportation Code
• stating that law enforcement officials are free to detain a person for an actual traffic violation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• 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×
• Walter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 562×
• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• Laney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-10-08· cited 353×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-12-17· cited 281×
• Powell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-11-04· cited 270×
• Crittenden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-05-17· cited 187×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-22· cited 169×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-11-25· cited 143×
• Haas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-08-03· cited 141×
• State of Iowa v. Scottize Danyelle Brown
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2019-06-28· cited 135×
• Zervos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-02-29· cited 132×
• Jaganathan, Francheska v.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-09-16· cited 120×
• State v. Lopez
  Utah Supreme Court· 1994-04-25· cited 119×
• Klare v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-07-31· cited 115×
• Coleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-04-05· cited 102×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1993-12-22· cited 95×
• State v. Fudge
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-05-17· cited 93×
• Randolph v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-12-06· cited 77×

Cites

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

• Graham v. Connor
  Supreme Court· 1989-05-15· cited 16,485×
• Chimel v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 6,512×
• United States v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-11· cited 3,538×
• Colorado v. Bertine
  Supreme Court· 1987-01-14· cited 1,722×
• Scott v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-26· cited 1,598×
• Maryland v. Garrison
  Supreme Court· 1987-02-24· cited 1,107×
• New York v. Burger
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-19· cited 1,072×
• Heitman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-26· cited 1,035×
• United States v. Lefkowitz
  Supreme Court· 1932-04-11· cited 761×
• Maryland v. MacOn
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-17· cited 625×
• United States v. Murad Nersesian
  Second Circuit· 1987-06-29· cited 559×
• United States v. Villamonte-Marquez
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-17· cited 415×
• United States v. Jose Luis Guzman and Sonia Cruz-Lazo
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-12-30· cited 381×
• United States v. Gregory Lynn Cummins, United States of America v. Timothy Akins, A/K/A Michael Mayfield
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-01-17· cited 261×
• United States v. Timothy Andrew Smith, Stephen Lawrence Swindell
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-09-16· cited 259×
• United States v. Reginald James Causey
  Fifth Circuit· 1987-12-17· cited 232×
• Eduardo Amador-Gonzalez v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-02-23· cited 206×
• United States v. Milton Hawkins
  Third Circuit· 1987-02-03· cited 181×
• United States v. William O. Trigg
  Seventh Circuit· 1989-07-12· cited 138×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-12-12· cited 122×