Jackson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court did not abuse its discretion in declining to submit lesser-included offense to jury
• holding that a trial court has the discretion to determine whether evidence of mental illness is relevant to negate the element of mens rea and, if admitted, whether such evidence raises the issue of a lesser-included offense
• stating that we review a trial court’s decision not to submit a lesser-included-offense instruction for abuse of discretion
• recognizing diminished capacity as a failure-of-proof defense in which a defendant claims the State failed to prove that the defendant had the required mental state
• stating that we review a trial court’s decision not to submit a lesser- included-offense instruction for abuse of discretion
• noting that legislature had made sudden passion a punishment issue instead of an affirmative defense to the crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mays v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-04-28· cited 370×
• Mays v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-22· cited 275×
• Ruffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-12-10· cited 209×
• Rhoten v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-10-16· cited 184×
• Dobbins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-05-10· cited 94×
• Brandon Lynn Darkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-04-29· cited 60×
• Esaw Lampkin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-08-11· cited 60×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-06-02· cited 29×
• Brandon Joseph Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-18· cited 28×
• PENALOZA v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-08-16· cited 26×
• Roger Charles Bridges v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-10-16· cited 21×
• People v. Valdez
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2022-06-29· cited 21×
• In re C.M.G.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-30· cited 19×
• Hart v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-04-30· cited 18×
• Michael Angel Ramirez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-02-04· cited 18×
• Brock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-07-09· cited 17×
• Alvin Peter Henry, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-04-16· cited 14×
• Ruffin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-08-08· cited 11×
• Cavazos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2010-11-03· cited 10×
• Zorn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2010-05-28· cited 8×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Bradley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 165×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-15· cited 136×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-01· cited 105×
• Cowles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-19· cited 24×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2003-09-05· cited 23×