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.

• noting that A [w]hen an indictment alleges differing methods of committing capital murder in the conjunctive, the jury may properly be charged in the disjunctive @
• “The unanimity requirement is not violated by instructing the jury on alternate theories of committing the same offense[.]”
• in a capital murder case, when the charge authorizes the jury to convict on more than one theory, a guilty verdict will be upheld if the evidence is sufficient on any one of the theories
• in a capital murder case, when the charge authorizes the jury to convict on more than one theory, a guilty verdict will be upheld if the evidence is sufficient on any one of the theories

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gamboa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-08· cited 469×
• Pizzo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-26· cited 239×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-26· cited 177×
• Gonzalez Soto v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2008-09-25· cited 153×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Hendrix v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-16· cited 87×
• De Los Santos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2006-11-22· cited 75×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-05-17· cited 75×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-01-10· cited 70×
• Gregory Pollock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-06-27· cited 67×
• Trent Mason v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-10-31· cited 66×
• Jason Alexander Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-05-29· cited 45×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-12-29· cited 44×
• Leal v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-11-18· cited 37×
• Saenz, Kimberly Clark
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-12-10· cited 35×
• Head v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-09-30· cited 28×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-05-12· cited 27×
• Gandy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-03-01· cited 22×
• Cook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-04-20· cited 18×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-02-03· cited 17×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-02-09· cited 6,445×
• Swearingen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-26· cited 924×
• Kitchens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-30· cited 686×
• Francis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-12-06· cited 305×