Gonzales v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that'reviewing courts are to afford the prevailing party all reasonable inferences that may be drawn from the evidence
• holding almost total deference should be given to trial court’s determination of historical facts, especially those based on evaluation of witness credibility or demeanor
• holding community-caretaking exception applied when police officer observed vehicle pull onto shoulder of road in isolated area and pulled in behind vehicle to “see if everything was okay”
• explaining that as part of duty to serve and protect, police may stop and assist person whom reasonable person would believe is in need of help under totality of circumstances
• applying first Wright factor and noting officer observed individual hunched over and motionless, as reek of alcohol wafted out of vehicle
• noting that it was unclear whether officer knew or could have determined if there were any other passengers in the vehicle, but concluding that appellant’s access to assistance was limited given the appel lant’s location, the time of night, and the light traffic

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Leming v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-13· cited 83×
• Kenneth Lee Douds v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-06-05· cited 77×
• Steven Cole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-12-18· cited 27×
• Byram v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-01-25· cited 26×
• State v. Phyllis Jean Whittington
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-03-06· cited 22×
• Ricardo L. Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2012-11-14· cited 22×
• Johnathan Ross Nickerson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-01· cited 19×
• Perez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-05· cited 19×
• State v. JB Daniel
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-08-29· cited 16×
• Brent Corwin Bullock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-11-21· cited 16×
• Walter Tendai Chidyausiku v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-23· cited 14×
• Lipscomb v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-10-25· cited 11×
• Bret Lee Gardner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-03-18· cited 10×
• Marcopoulos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-04-03· cited 10×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-07-25· cited 9×
• Casey Demon Carmon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2014-12-30· cited 8×
• Luciano Vargas Padilla v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-03· cited 8×
• Karl Frederick Schultz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-11-20· cited 7×
• Cynthia Lorena Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-09-01· cited 7×
• James Edward Leming v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-12-17· cited 6×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Katz v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 13,304×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Mincey v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-21· cited 3,849×
• Cady v. Dombrowski
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-21· cited 2,465×
• Kothe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-20· cited 930×
• State v. Garcia-Cantu
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-05-07· cited 791×
• State v. Woodard
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-04-06· cited 358×
• Corbin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-05· cited 279×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-15· cited 215×
• United States v. Osvaldo Rodriguez-Morales
  First Circuit· 1991-03-27· cited 206×
• Kuykendall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2011-03-09· cited 19×
• Gonzales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2011-04-07· cited 6×