Lopez 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 offer to sell and possession of drugs to complete that specific sale is one single offense
• holding that offering to sell a controlled substance is one means of satisfying the delivery element of the Texas controlled substance statute
• holding that State’s interpretation, which would allow for individual prosecutions for each manner and means of committing the offense, was “overly literal, and [did] not comport with common sense”
• concluding that the legislature intended that one sale of a discrete amount of controlled substance was punishable as a single offense, not to be broken down into separate offenses for each step of the sale
• noting that actor can be prosecuted for separate violations of sexual assault statute based on different acts that occur in same transaction
• noting that actor can be prosecuted for separate violations of sexual assault statute based on different acts that occur in same transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ex Parte Cavazos
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-04· cited 445×
• Garfias, Christopher
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-02-26· cited 176×
• United States v. Wayland Hinkle
  Fifth Circuit· 2016-08-11· cited 166×
• Clinton, Katherine
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-12-14· cited 141×
• Aekins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-10-22· cited 101×
• Loving v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-06-26· cited 100×
• People v. Abiodun
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2005-05-02· cited 93×
• United States v. Dantana Tanksley
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-01-18· cited 82×
• De Los Santos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2006-11-22· cited 75×
• Hanson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-11-22· cited 75×
• Rangel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2006-03-08· cited 69×
• Elder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2004-02-12· cited 66×
• Weinn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-30· cited 61×
• Tyson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-07· cited 58×
• United States v. Vu Anh Le
  Fifth Circuit· 2007-12-21· cited 53×
• Weinn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-04-03· cited 43×
• King v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-11-10· cited 42×
• United States v. Dantana Tanksley
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-04-13· cited 40×
• Guerrero v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-12-09· cited 31×
• Archie v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-01-03· cited 28×

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Ball v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-26· cited 1,092×
• Vick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-02-24· cited 385×
• Ervin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-01-13· cited 381×
• Manrique v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-05-19· cited 299×
• United States v. Roy Mandujano
  Fifth Circuit· 1974-09-17· cited 199×
• Marable v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-09-18· cited 192×
• United States v. Jose Luis Oropeza and Mark James Minton
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-11-08· cited 128×
• United States v. Osvaldo Rodriguez-Cardona, A/K/A \Valdo\
  First Circuit· 1991-01-23· cited 96×
• United States v. Drayton Curry, (Two Cases). United States of America v. Howard Langston Manley
  Fourth Circuit· 1975-04-03· cited 78×
• United States v. Gore
  Second Circuit· 1998-08-21· cited 73×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 59×
• Stewart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-22· cited 59×
• United States v. Robert Stevens
  Sixth Circuit· 1975-08-15· cited 57×
• United States v. Pedro Gomez, A/K/A Jose Rivera Lopez
  Third Circuit· 1979-05-14· cited 57×
• United States v. Pete Hernandez
  Fifth Circuit· 1979-03-20· cited 56×
• United States v. Frank Carcaise
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-06-24· cited 43×
• United States v. Joe Agapito Olivas
  Tenth Circuit· 1977-10-03· cited 29×