Hawkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that an instruction on the defense of good faith would be an improper comment on the weight of the evidence
• noting that statutory defense of mistake of law “requires reliance on a narrow class or official statements or interpretations of the law”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. Michael Carr
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-09-18· cited 431×
• Giesberg v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-30· cited 231×
• LACAZE v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-07· cited 56×
• Giesberg v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1997-04-24· cited 55×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 43×
• Adams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1993-08-25· cited 38×
• Cook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-12-20· cited 31×
• Bridwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-27· cited 30×
• Head v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-09-30· cited 28×
• Gant v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-24· cited 16×
• James Alan Jenkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-04· cited 13×
• Franks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1987-01-30· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1986-02-27· cited 6×
• Mark Ken Tafel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2016-08-31· cited 4×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-03· cited 2×
• Jack A. Gant, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1991-07-24
• Richard Calvin Howard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1996-01-24
• Phillip Head v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-09-30
• Tyrone Lacaze v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-07
• Demetrius Carr v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-07-20

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Plunkett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-05-16· cited 64×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-09· cited 43×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-26· cited 28×
• Knorpp v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1983-01-26· cited 15×
• Fulcher v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-04-04· cited 9×
• DeLeon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1947-01-22· cited 7×