McDonald 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 mistrial was not warranted by prosecutor’s argument that he thought the testifying victim was “very believable”
• intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire can be inferred from the accused’s conduct and remarks, as well as the surrounding circumstances
• intent to arouse or gratify sexual desire can be inferred from defendant’s conduct, remarks, and all surrounding circumstances, including a common pattern of similar acts
• instruction cured prosecutor’s statement that he thought victim was “very believable”
• instruction cured prosecutor's statement that he thought victim was “very believable”
• instruction cured prosecutor's statement that he thought victim was ―very believable‖

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McDonald v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-23· cited 638×
• Carlos Ferrer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-08-19
• Roy Mathre v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-02-14
• Ronnie Joe Mason v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2009-08-26
• Marie Gallegos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2009-08-26
• Jeremy Wayne Matthews v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2009-12-30
• McDonald, Robert Charles
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-23
• Jose Avitua Soto v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-08-31
• Jermaine C. Mitchell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-08-31
• Antonio Campos Salgado A/K/A Antonio Campos-Arrellano v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2012-06-21
• Ex Parte: Manuel Cisneros
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2013-03-28
• James Randall Downs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2010-08-04
• Meria James Bradley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-02-25
• Enrique Zamora v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-03-13
• Francisco Horta Licea v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2010-08-27
• Eduardo Santamaria v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-01-20
• Christopher David Swofford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-11-12
• John D. Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2021-01-21
• Marquis Deshawn Clark Jr. v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2021-11-24
• Kevin Debnam v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2023-06-28

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Wesbrook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 2,816×
• McDuff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-22· cited 1,412×
• Wyatt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-03· cited 1,327×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-05-05· cited 762×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-17· cited 727×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-10-01· cited 640×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-31· cited 553×
• Mayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-29· cited 528×
• Camacho v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-13· cited 440×
• Sauceda v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-03-10· cited 329×
• Webb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-12-28· cited 214×
• Buchanan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-29· cited 136×
• Page v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-06-09· cited 113×
• Ranson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-09· cited 45×
• Hayden v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-01-07· cited 16×