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 jury may choose to believe or not believe all, some or none of the testimony of the witnesses who testify in a trial
• holding that carrying a handgun from an old residence to a new one will constitute a defense to prosecution, but that one will not be entitled to carry a weapon idly, for the sake of carrying it, habitually, or for an unlawful purpose
• characterizing the \traveling” exception to weapons offenses as \a defense to prosecution” and citing § 2.03(e)
• “[A] correct instruction of the law relating to the offense charged must be given to the jury.”
• “The jury, or trial judge in a trial before the court, is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and may accept or reject any part or all of the testimony given by State or defense witnesses.”
• “The jury, or trial judge in a trial before the court, is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and may accept or reject any part or all of the testimony given by State or defense witnesses.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-15· cited 953×
• Bowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-03· cited 404×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-29· cited 303×
• State v. Purlee
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1992-10-27· cited 237×
• Mattias v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-29· cited 190×
• Armstrong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-11-26· cited 96×
• Karnes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-02-23· cited 92×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-10· cited 84×
• Wallace v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1996-01-10· cited 75×
• Austin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-06· cited 74×
• Morales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1992-03-26· cited 72×
• United States v. Mario Prieto-Tejas
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-03-04· cited 66×
• Kemple v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1987-02-12· cited 60×
• Holmes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-03-11· cited 57×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-02-12· cited 55×
• Godoy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-30· cited 48×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1998-02-25· cited 44×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-04-07· cited 43×
• Nichols v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-01· cited 42×
• Sauceda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1993-06-29· cited 39×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-20· cited 58×
• Roy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-29· cited 40×
• Lapp v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-12· cited 30×
• Chatman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 29×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-22· cited 20×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-26· cited 14×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-03-10· cited 11×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1889-06-15· cited 10×
• Oliver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-05-27· cited 8×
• Tolbert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1952-01-23· cited 7×
• Ruiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-05-22· cited 4×