Griffith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• applying Section 12.42(c)(2) as it appeared at the time the instant offense was committed
• applying Section 12.42(c)(2) as it appeared at the time the instant offense was committed
• describing this enhancement provision as effecting a “two-strikes policy” for sex offenders
• the defendant's \argument would have more weight were it not for\ other language in the statute
• “If one reasonable interpretation yields absurd results while the other interpretation yields no such absurdities, the latter interpretation is preferred.”
• “If one reasonable interpretation yields absurd results while the other interpretation yields no such absurdities, the latter interpretation is preferred.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Leach v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-06-16· cited 147×
• Prudholm v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-16· cited 76×
• Beedy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-04-27· cited 44×
• Ex Parte Ervin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-04-06· cited 38×
• Ex Parte Roemer
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-02-28· cited 25×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-27· cited 22×
• Rhodes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-07-27· cited 15×
• Prudholm v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-02-11· cited 13×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-05-10· cited 13×
• State v. Jose Ruiz
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-27· cited 13×
• Nixon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-08-31· cited 11×
• State v. Verhoeven
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2004-11-04· cited 11×
• Lutz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-01-19· cited 5×
• State v. Patrick Wayne Verhoeven
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2004-10-07· cited 1×
• Goodrich v. Livingston
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-10-07· cited 1×
• Terry Rhodes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-10-14
• Arnold Ray Beedy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-04-27
• Gabriel Lemell Prudholm v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-10-17
• Bruce William Lamar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2003-12-18
• Duncan Farwell Leach v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2005-06-16

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boykin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 1,829×
• Muniz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-06· cited 1,228×
• Rucker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-13· cited 58×
• Griffith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-08-01· cited 5×