Morrison v. State

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Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Jury must be informed of colloquial meaning of offensive phrase for it to be considered calculated to provoke a difficulty. Words alone may provoke a difficulty if they are clearly designed to do so
• Jury must be informed of colloquial meaning of offensive phrase for it to be considered calculated to provoke a difficulty. Words alone may provoke a difficulty if they are clearly designed to do so
• “. . . words alone may provoke a difficulty, they must clearly be designed to do so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-18· cited 283×
• Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-06· cited 97×
• Matthews v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-02-19· cited 50×
• Tave v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-07-22· cited 17×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-04-27· cited 3×
• Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez Elizondo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2014-01-16
• Harold Wayne Cherry v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-01-23
• Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-12
• Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-17
• Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-16