Lassaint v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• proving mere proximity to contraband is not legally sufficient to prove possession
• declining to find, in the course of a legal sufficiency review, that the accused — a passenger in a vehicle stopped by law enforcement — demonstrated a consciousness of guilt through his nervousness, because the evidence established that the accused was also cooperative
• declining to find, in the course of a legal sufficiency review, that the accused--a passenger in a vehicle stopped by law enforcement--demonstrated a consciousness of guilt through his nervousness, because the evidence established that the accused was also cooperative
• a party must have acted with the intent to promote or assist the offense by soliciting, encouraging, directing, aiding, or attempting to aid the other person who has possession
• to establish criminal liability as a party, defendant must have acted with the intent to promote or assist the offense by soliciting, encouraging, directing, aiding, or attempting to aid the other person who had possession
• noting defendant “was not armed, nor were any weapons recovered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• 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×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Lair v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-07-03· cited 89×
• Hall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-09-12· cited 67×
• Muckleroy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2006-10-27· cited 63×
• Villarreal Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2008-05-29· cited 48×
• Deschenes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-04-14· cited 47×
• Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-01-25· cited 45×
• Larry Bruce Wiley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-08-30· cited 45×
• Evans v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2006-04-05· cited 36×
• Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2007-11-30· cited 35×
• Richard Ryan Black v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-08· cited 31×
• Poindexter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2003-09-18· cited 23×
• Hawkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2003-03-06· cited 21×
• Shipp v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-07-23· cited 20×
• Ferguson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-02-23· cited 18×
• Christopher Shantel Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-01-25· cited 1×
• Thomas Ford Bland v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-09-30
• Jose Santos Escobedo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2014-11-07

Cites

43 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×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Geesa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-06· cited 2,157×
• Greene v. Massey
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,268×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-12-13· cited 1,146×
• Paulson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-10-04· cited 872×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-29· cited 564×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-18· cited 464×
• McGoldrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-09· cited 433×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 399×
• Gilbert v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-04-07· cited 295×
• Rabbani v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 293×
• Cude v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-05· cited 291×
• Menchaca v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-04-27· cited 268×
• Whitworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-04-17· cited 255×
• Hurtado v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-05-12· cited 177×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1998-06-17· cited 173×
• Dickey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-10-31· cited 161×
• Mohmed v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-16· cited 149×
• Martinets v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-09-28· cited 149×