Lawrence v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “voluntary manslaughter is an incidental theory of the defense,” so “the subtle deletion of the State’s burden of proof on the absence of sudden passion in the murder application paragraph cannot realistically be construed to inure to the defendant's egregious harm.”
• concluding that “voluntary manslaughter is an incidental theory of the defense,” so “the subtle deletion of the State’s burden of proof on the absence of sudden passion in the murder application paragraph cannot realistically be construed to inure to the defendant's egregious harm.”
• determining that voluntary manslaughter was incidental theory of defense such that subtle deletion of State's burden of proof on absence of sudden passion in charge could not realistically have caused egregious harm
• Egregious harm not shown where lovers quarrel at bar escalated upon returning to the apartment defendant and deceased shared.
• Egregious harm not shown where lovers quarrel at bar escalated upon returning to the apartment defendant and deceased shared.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rose v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-15· cited 647×
• Lawton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-17· cited 507×
• Ex Parte Patterson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-21· cited 199×
• Sattiewhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-10-25· cited 187×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-04· cited 168×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-08· cited 132×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 101×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 91×
• Gold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 85×
• Easterling v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-15· cited 81×
• Elliott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-14· cited 74×
• Rose v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-12-01· cited 74×
• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-06-21· cited 69×
• Ruiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-18· cited 56×
• Benavides v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1999-05-13· cited 51×
• Castillo-Fuentes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-22· cited 50×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-30· cited 47×
• McIntosh v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1993-04-19· cited 43×
• Richard Michael Mayabb v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-03-12· cited 40×
• Rainey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-07-24· cited 34×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• Connecticut v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1983-02-23· cited 606×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-17· cited 378×
• Cumbie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-28· cited 245×
• 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×
• Combs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-08· cited 155×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-30· cited 127×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-16· cited 110×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-17· cited 54×
• Schoelman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-01-18· cited 51×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-12· cited 40×
• Medlock v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-31· cited 40×
• Jefcoat v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-10· cited 28×
• Davis v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1891-04-13· cited 27×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 10×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-05-11· cited 6×