Harris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• fundamental error when jury charge had no application paragraph at all; \Fundamental error is presented where error in the charge goes to the very basis of the case so that the charge fails to state and apply the law under which the accused is prosecuted.\
• fundamental error when jury charge had no application paragraph at all; “Fundamental error is presented where error in the charge goes to the very basis of the case so that the charge fails to state and apply the law under which the accused is prosecuted.”
• fundamental error when jury charge had no application paragraph at all; \Fundamental error is presented where error in the charge goes to the very basis of the case so that the charge fails to state and apply the law under which the accused is prosecuted.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Posey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-25· cited 696×
• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-22· cited 604×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-12-15· cited 256×
• Cumbie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-28· cited 245×
• Duffy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-07· cited 182×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 158×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-26· cited 154×
• Romo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-07-19· cited 137×
• Mendez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-04-25· cited 134×
• Doyle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-28· cited 125×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-05· cited 123×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-06· cited 100×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-11-10· cited 83×
• Morter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-25· cited 75×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 74×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 68×
• Perez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-06-09· cited 52×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-23· cited 49×
• Holford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-10-26· cited 45×