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.

• affirming murder conviction; fact-finder could reject sudden passion claim if it found no provocative conduct, no adequate case, or that defendant acted deliberately rather than in moment \incapable of cool reflection\
• affirming murder conviction; fact-finder could reject sudden passion claim if it found no provocative conduct, no adequate case, or that defendant acted deliberately rather than in moment \incapable of cool reflection\
• State offered evidence of history of abuse from which jury could find absence of sudden passion at time of offense
• verbally taunting the accused was insufficient \adequate cause\ for sudden passion
• verbally taunting the accused was insufficient “adequate cause” for sudden passion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-10· cited 698×
• Escobedo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-05-19· cited 348×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-03· cited 346×
• Bargas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-05-13· cited 283×
• Ex Parte Huskins
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-02· cited 204×
• Tyra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-26· cited 199×
• Gregory v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-09-13· cited 185×
• Naasz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1998-07-30· cited 118×
• Narron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 110×
• Ex Parte McKithan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-14· cited 104×
• Turro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-07-03· cited 83×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1992-09-30· cited 73×
• Kelley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1998-01-27· cited 54×
• Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1998-03-19· cited 45×
• Judd v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-20· cited 42×
• Thompson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2000-03-22· cited 37×
• McClinton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-01-25· cited 36×
• Rainey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-07-24· cited 34×
• Rogers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1996-08-28· cited 33×
• Jennings v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2003-03-31· cited 30×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Sandstrom v. Montana
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-18· cited 3,585×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-29· cited 1,851×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-04-05· cited 713×
• Martin v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-20· cited 540×
• Ex Parte Patterson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-21· cited 199×
• Ex Parte Beck
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-22· cited 183×
• Cobarrubio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-01-12· cited 175×
• Bradley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 165×
• Braudrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-01· cited 101×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-06· cited 100×
• Luken v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-22· cited 94×
• Gold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 85×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-07-02· cited 75×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-15· cited 65×
• Castillo-Fuentes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-22· cited 50×
• Mixon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-27· cited 44×