Lawson 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 intentional and knowing aggravated assault can serve as the predicate felony for felony murder
• “Involuntary manslaughter is, by definition, an accidental homicide, committed with recklessness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lomax v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 181×
• Contreras v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-09· cited 123×
• Royerick Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-11-19· cited 72×
• Michelle Elaine Bearnth v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-10-27· cited 55×
• O'Brien v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-02· cited 55×
• Strickland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-03-30· cited 37×
• Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-10-03· cited 37×
• Hollin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-04-18· cited 28×
• McGuire v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-10· cited 28×
• McDowell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-08-28· cited 23×
• Victor Zavala, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-11-01· cited 22×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2003-01-22· cited 17×
• Fraser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-09· cited 15×
• State v. Jones
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-02-24· cited 11×
• Woodard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-10-22· cited 10×
• Nilda Iliana Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-07-31· cited 9×
• Esquivel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-01-25· cited 1×
• Torres, Juan M. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-12-19
• James Andrew Hollin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-10-26
• Jeremy Steven Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-02-15

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Aguirre v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 234×
• People v. Wilson
  California Supreme Court· 1969-12-18· cited 168×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-03-27· cited 126×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-22· cited 107×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-27· cited 107×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-20· cited 62×
• Ex Parte Easter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-22· cited 56×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-07-03· cited 54×
• Wade v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1978-07-17· cited 51×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-08· cited 41×
• Little v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-11-02· cited 28×
• Doane v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-10-07· cited 22×
• Homan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-31· cited 16×
• Lawson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2000-09-11· cited 6×
• Neff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-24· cited 4×