Johnson 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 a feeling that one is in a “high crime” area would not constitute a reasonable belief that unlawfully carrying a weapon is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm
• holding that a feeling that one is in a “high crime” area would not constitute a reasonable belief that unlawfully carrying a weapon is immediately necessary to avoid imminent harm
• holding defense of necessity not unavailable as a matter of law when prosecuted for unlawfully carrying a weapon on licensed premises
• necessity defense not available to defendant charged with unlawfully carrying a handgun on licensed premises
• necessity defense not unavailable as matter of law to defendant charged with illegal possession of handgun

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-15· cited 391×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-11· cited 224×
• Brazelton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 1997-06-05· cited 120×
• Pennington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-10-04· cited 100×
• Stefanoff v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-06-19· cited 100×
• Boget v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-01· cited 97×
• State v. Harmon
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-10-14· cited 97×
• Maldonado v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-06-29· cited 78×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-14· cited 72×
• Gutierrez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-01· cited 65×
• Gonzales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-08-31· cited 61×
• Boget v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2001-02-07· cited 54×
• Bowen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-04· cited 50×
• Bobo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-21· cited 40×
• State v. Crawford
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1987-03-06· cited 34×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-27· cited 28×
• State v. Ramos
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-11-23· cited 25×
• Egger v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1991-10-09· cited 22×
• Commonwealth v. Lindsey
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1986-03-05· cited 18×
• Currie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-19· cited 17×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Roy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-29· cited 40×
• Worton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-03-07· cited 29×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-22· cited 20×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1982-12-15· cited 4×