Hughes v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “So long as the accused reasonably believes that the third person would be justified in using deadly force to protect himself, the accused may step in and exercise deadly force on behalf of that person.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Irene Reese, Etc. v. Steve Anderson
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-03-21· cited 210×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-08-24· cited 190×
• Morales, Jose Manuel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-11-09· cited 122×
• Kennedy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-03-30· cited 77×
• Vaughn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-12-15· cited 60×
• Madrigal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-07-07· cited 29×
• Henderson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-10-04· cited 27×
• Jimenez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-11-18· cited 22×
• Christopher Ernest Braughton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-04-20· cited 21×
• Hanley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1996-05-01· cited 17×
• Wise v. Peterson
  S.D. Texas· 2011-06-08· cited 5×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-30· cited 5×
• Rue v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-08-19· cited 4×
• People v. Melendez
  New York Supreme Court· 1992-07-28· cited 3×
• In re D.O.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-11-09· cited 1×
• In Re DO
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-11-09
• D. O. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-11-09
• Jeremias Fuentes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-12-03
• James Roosevelt Rue v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-03-05
• Patrick Aaron Kennedy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-03-30

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Sternlight v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-15· cited 42×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-07-13· cited 19×
• People v. Young
  New York Court of Appeals· 1962-05-10· cited 19×
• Crawford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1982-02-04· cited 9×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-04-18· cited 3×