Martinez 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 that “one cannot accidentally or recklessly act in self-defense”
• where defendant testified that he acted in self-defense, the trial court properly refused to give manslaughter instruction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Alonzo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 91×
• Kennedy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-03-30· cited 77×
• Marsh v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-06-10· cited 75×
• Trevino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-10-18· cited 68×
• O'BRIEN v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-11-27· cited 37×
• Nevarez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-10-24· cited 28×
• Gahagan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-09-27· cited 24×
• Stepherson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-02-28· cited 10×
• Alonzo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-01-12· cited 8×
• Treyvon Raymond Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-12-17
• O'Brien, John Phillip v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-10-24
• Manuel Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-05-25
• Dagmar Fehrmann Gahagan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-09-27
• Rudy Rodriguez, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-10-22
• Carlos Landrian v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-05-29
• Mark Irwin Stevens v. Lynn Stevens
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-09-21
• Lee Thomas Butler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-09-21
• Patrick Aaron Kennedy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-03-30
• Jamie Benitez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2003-07-22
• Charles Edward Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-03-05

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Rousseau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-24· cited 1,521×
• Bignall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-11-16· cited 684×
• Adanandus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 505×
• Saunders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-05-13· cited 436×
• Banda v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-14· cited 397×
• Godsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-01· cited 358×
• Avila v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1997-11-12· cited 88×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-02-08· cited 72×