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 the State must prove the identity of the perpetrator
• noting that the State must prove not only that an offense was committed, but that the party charged was the person who committed it or was a participant in its commission
• “[m]ere presence at the scene of the crime alone is not sufficient to conclude that the accused committed the offense beyond a reasonable doubt”
• “A jury, sitting as the trier of facts, may accept or reject any or all of the testimony adduced.”
• State must prove its allegations in the indictment beyond a reasonable doubt
• \The fact the jury in the instant case was entitled to disregard the accident story to deputy Drewell (and offered by the State) does not mean that the missing elements of the charged offense are supplied by the rejection.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Geesa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-06· cited 2,157×
• Goodman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-11-21· cited 682×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-13· cited 621×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-04· cited 291×
• Roberson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-04-13· cited 277×
• Fernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-27· cited 110×
• Gentry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-11-23· cited 102×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-08-16· cited 93×
• Tippitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-03-15· cited 78×
• Scott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-05-22· cited 74×
• Bradley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-02-09· cited 70×
• Nance v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1991-04-11· cited 66×
• Giesberg v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1997-04-24· cited 55×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-16· cited 50×
• Hughes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1990-03-29· cited 43×
• Webber v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-11-16· cited 41×
• McCafferty v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1988-03-10· cited 39×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-10-10· cited 38×
• In re S.B.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-08-29· cited 38×
• Clarke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-31· cited 36×

Cites

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

• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Greene v. Massey
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,268×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-15· cited 993×
• Carlsen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-01· cited 490×
• Houston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-01· cited 426×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-23· cited 385×
• Crocker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 336×
• Hankins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-01· cited 274×
• Esquivel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-03-13· cited 168×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-09· cited 154×
• Denby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-16· cited 152×
• Faulk v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-22· cited 134×
• Girard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-14· cited 117×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-01-21· cited 99×
• Wright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-10· cited 84×
• Hooker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-18· cited 71×
• Stuebgen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-23· cited 71×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-21· cited 68×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-05-19· cited 55×
• Pfleging v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 50×