Lewis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating carelessness, stupidity, irresponsibility, and mere lack of foresight do not rise to the level of criminal recklessness
• stating the key to criminal negligence is found in the failure of the actor to perceive the risk
• noting that criminal negligence involves inattentive risk creation
• noting that criminal negligence involves inattentive risk creation
• noting that criminal negligence involves inattentive risk creation
• reckless conduct “involves conscious risk creation, that is, the actor is aware of the risk surrounding his conduct or the results thereof, but consciously disregards that risk”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-10-03· cited 2,009×
• Montgomery, Jeri Dawn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-06-20· cited 410×
• Dillon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-22· cited 372×
• Tompkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 307×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 283×
• Aliff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-03· cited 255×
• Lugo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-03-14· cited 252×
• Tyra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-26· cited 199×
• Moon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-04· cited 180×
• Dowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 136×
• Trepanier v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-03-06· cited 108×
• Ybarra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1995-04-05· cited 103×
• Stadt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-23· cited 97×
• Mendieta v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-19· cited 96×
• Bowden v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-26· cited 85×
• Todd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-11-09· cited 82×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-10-03· cited 78×
• Navarro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-20· cited 75×
• Licon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2003-03-27· cited 66×

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1942-11-04· cited 92×
• Reyna v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-09-16· cited 74×
• Stiles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-26· cited 68×
• Trevino v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-12· cited 50×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-05-21· cited 43×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-07-28· cited 40×
• Galvan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-07-16· cited 32×
• Edworthy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-10-23· cited 23×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-19· cited 18×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-08· cited 11×