James 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 evidence that officers saw defendant gesturing as though he was placing something under his car seat supported jury’s finding that he possessed gun found under his seat
• stating “absence of various affirmative links does not constitute evidence of innocence to be weighed against the affirmative links present”
• finding link where defendant was “nervously looking around in a manner that made the officers believe he was going to attempt to flee.”
• among other factors, evidence legally sufficient where record showed appellant in close proximity to weapon, located within inches of his legs and within easy reach
• among other factors, evidence legally sufficient where record showed appellant in close proximity to weapon, located within inches of his legs and within easy reach

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Kibble v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-05-11· cited 72×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-05-26· cited 60×
• Villarreal Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2008-05-29· cited 48×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-05-05· cited 46×
• Larry Bruce Wiley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-08-30· cited 45×
• Lydell Anton Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-31· cited 40×
• Satchell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-06-10· cited 35×
• Kristopher Donald Mixon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2015-11-10· cited 26×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2010-08-19· cited 18×
• Edward Dwayne Henry v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-06-20· cited 18×
• Willie Dan Majors, III v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2018-07-25· cited 13×
• Michael Lee Stout v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-11-08· cited 12×
• Robert Bruce Swapsy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2018-10-11· cited 10×
• Wise v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-03-03· cited 8×
• Eloisa Medina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-12-01· cited 5×
• Dallas Carl Tate v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-05-18· cited 4×
• Lisandro Beltran De La Torre v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2018-03-15· cited 4×
• Damion Demond Russel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-01-05· cited 3×
• Luis Felipe Silva-Aguilar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-12-30
• Ginnie Fay Roberts v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2015-01-13

Cites

21 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-02-09· cited 6,445×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 4,543×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-12· cited 2,381×
• Ladd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 1,900×
• Leday v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-12-16· cited 1,256×
• Muniz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-06· cited 1,228×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-12-20· cited 949×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-03-28· cited 589×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-03-13· cited 581×
• Vodochodsky v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-16· cited 433×
• Gilbert v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-04-07· cited 295×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-07-07· cited 189×
• Saldano v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-06· cited 180×
• Bates v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-01-13· cited 110×
• Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-07-31· cited 101×
• Corpus v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-08-31· cited 95×
• Steadman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2000-10-19· cited 84×
• Hawkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-01-29· cited 49×
• McClesky v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-04-25· cited 35×