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 in circumstantial evidence cases, “it is not necessary that every fact point directly and independently to the defendant’s guilt; it is enough if the conclusion is warranted by the combined and cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances”
• holding that in circumstantial evidence cases, ―it is not necessary that every fact point directly and independently to the defendant‘s guilt; it is enough if the conclusion is warranted by the combined and cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances‖
• holding that, in a circumstantial evidence case, “it is not necessary that every fact point directly and independently to the defendant’s guilt; it is enough if the conclusion is warranted by the combined and cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances”
• holding that, in a circumstantial evidence case, “it is not necessary that every fact point directly and independently to the defendant’s guilt; it is enough if the conclusion is warranted by the combined and cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances”
• holding that, in a circumstantial evidence case, A it is not necessary that every fact point directly and independently to the defendant = s guilt; it is enough if the conclusion is warranted by the combined and cumulative force of all the incriminating circumstances @
• addressing circumstantial evidence that gun cleaning kits for a .25 caliber firearm and a .38 caliber firearm were found in the accused’s home, even though the actual firearms, themselves, were not found in the accused’s home

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31· cited 5,494×
• Winfrey, Megan AKA Megan Winfrey Hammond
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-02-27· cited 784×
• Hartsfield v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-03-09· cited 543×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-27· cited 418×
• Couchman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-09· cited 411×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-04-12· cited 358×
• Escobedo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-05-19· cited 348×
• Roberson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-04-13· cited 277×
• Acosta, Victor Manuel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-05-07· cited 236×
• Willis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-05-10· cited 149×
• Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-03-25· cited 148×
• Barnes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-11-29· cited 126×
• Howley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1997-03-27· cited 116×
• Coleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-04-05· cited 102×
• Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-07-31· cited 101×
• Russo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-06-07· cited 95×
• Camarillo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-05-09· cited 90×
• Madden v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1996-01-24· cited 86×
• Turro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-07-03· cited 83×
• Barnum v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2000-01-20· cited 81×