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 felony murder was properly based on underlying offense of injury to a child even though death 8 was direct result of the offense
• disavowing the “overly broad statement in Garrett v. State, 573 S.W.2d 543, 546 (Tex. Crim. App. [Panel Op.] 1978
• affirming felony murder conviction premised on underlying offense of injury to child
• “The felony murder rule dispenses with the necessity of proving mens rea accompanying the homicide itself; the underlying felony supplies the culpable mental state.”
• \The felony murder rule dispenses with the necessity of proving mens rea accompanying the homicide itself; the underlying felony supplies the culpable mental state.\
• felony-murder conviction can be based upon the underlying felony without proof of any additional dangerous act beyond that covered by the underlying felony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bigon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-01-16· cited 588×
• Lomax v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 181×
• Contreras v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-09· cited 123×
• Benson, Yusulf Shaheed
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-15· cited 108×
• Royerick Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-11-19· cited 72×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-12-05· cited 65×
• Drew v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-06-26· cited 61×
• Yandell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-04-12· cited 55×
• Michelle Elaine Bearnth v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-10-27· cited 55×
• Miles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-06-03· cited 51×
• Rodriguez, Nilda Iliana
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-18· cited 47×
• Xiomara Rosales Mendez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-08-16· cited 32×
• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-10· cited 28×
• Jessica Tata v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-19· cited 22×
• Victor Zavala, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-11-01· cited 22×
• Flores v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2003-03-20· cited 19×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2003-01-22· cited 17×
• Homan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-31· cited 16×
• Hudson, Cynthia Ann
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-27· cited 16×
• Fraser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-09· cited 15×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aguirre v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 234×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-22· cited 107×
• Ex Parte Easter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-22· cited 56×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-08· cited 41×
• Hilliard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-07-17· cited 30×
• Richardson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1992-01-08· cited 13×