Lozano 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 a defendant who had started a single fire causing the death or injury of five people “committed a single offense, allowing a single unit of prosecution”
• noting that court of appeals considered such factors and upholding court’s conclusion that evidence was legally sufficient to sustain conviction
• hands and feet used to strike victim were deadly weapon in murder case
• defendant used lighter as deadly weapon by using it to start a fire
• defendant used lighter as deadly weapon by using it to start a fire
• lighter specifically used to ignite fire which burned building

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tyra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-26· cited 199×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 169×
• Mann v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-05-03· cited 146×
• Reina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-04-10· cited 90×
• Handy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-07-24· cited 14×
• State v. Hill-White
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2018-08-10· cited 9×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-12-29· cited 8×
• Sellers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-07-31· cited 6×
• Samuel Ledesma v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1994-10-26
• Robert Sterling Miller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-10-11
• Ex Parte Jack Warren Davis
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-02-08
• Ex Parte: Chad Todd
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-06-12
• Gary Butler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-03-13
• John Michael Reina, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-02-27
• Graham William Munn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-01-09
• Edwin Harris Mann v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-01-13
• Estanislado Ovalle Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-06-19
• Derrick Wayne McDonald v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-06-19
• W. Gabriel Taylor and Wife, Iris Taylor v. Thirkield J. Wilder
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-04-30
• Larry Samuel Palmer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-12-05

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Illinois v. Vitale
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-19· cited 1,215×
• Sanabria v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,038×
• Ex Parte Patterson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-21· cited 199×
• Ex Parte Beck
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-22· cited 183×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-11· cited 183×
• Denham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-13· cited 182×
• Quintana v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1989-08-31· cited 168×
• Ex Parte Rathmell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 163×
• Beltran v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-30· cited 148×
• Luken v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-22· cited 94×
• Spradling v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 92×
• Romo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-30· cited 73×
• McElroy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-04· cited 62×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-10· cited 54×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-01· cited 44×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-08· cited 41×
• Taylor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-07-30· cited 33×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-09· cited 23×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-29· cited 21×
• Harper v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1988-07-07· cited 19×