Morales 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 weapon can be found to be deadly without having been introduced into evidence
• holding that a weapon can be found to be deadly without having been introduced into evidence
• holding that it is common knowledge that the throat is a particularly vulnerable part of the body
• concluding that even though victim did not see knife that was used during assault, nature of victim’s injuries and other evidence was sufficient to support deadly weapon finding
• concluding that, although knife was not produced, testimony established that knife was deadly weapon
• concluding that, although knife was not produced, testimony established that knife was deadly weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-02-26· cited 280×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-11-26· cited 198×
• Nickerson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-01-23· cited 99×
• Banargent v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-05-31· cited 53×
• Romero v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-12-23· cited 41×
• Magana v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2007-06-06· cited 39×
• Garza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1985-07-17· cited 33×
• Aleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1990-08-30· cited 25×
• in the Matter of D.L., a Juvenile
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2005-02-23· cited 17×
• Akbar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1983-06-23· cited 13×
• Villarreal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-02-27· cited 10×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-30· cited 10×
• Granger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-18· cited 9×
• George Loran Dana v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2012-12-12· cited 6×
• Beck v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1983-01-12· cited 5×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-30· cited 2×
• Rose v. Johnson
  S.D. Texas· 2001-03-26· cited 1×
• In Re DL
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2005-02-23
• Thurman, Tracey Lynn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-10-31
• Andrew T. Kemp v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-06-24

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Denham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-13· cited 182×
• Alvarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-31· cited 68×
• Windham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-11-26· cited 35×