Mosley 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 BB gun did not fit the statutory definition of a “deadly weapon” when expert witness testified that its projectiles could not penetrate the skin
• concluding that evidence was insufficient to establish BB gun was a deadly weapon
• concluding that an unloaded BB gun that was never pointed toward the face of the victim and was never used as or threatened to be used as a bludgeon was not a deadly weapon in that case
• deciding whether an air pistol, as used, was a deadly weapon under the newly enacted definition of \deadly weapon\
• deciding whether an air pistol, as used, was a deadly weapon under the newly enacted definition of \deadly weapon\
• deciding whether an air pistol, as used, was a deadly weapon under the newly enacted definition of \deadly weapon\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Denham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-13· cited 182×
• Adame v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-03-06· cited 133×
• Limuel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-03· cited 109×
• Gomez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-20· cited 103×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1998-11-18· cited 63×
• United States v. Juan Castillo-Rivera
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-03-30· cited 61×
• Vaughn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-12-15· cited 60×
• Holder v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-12-23· cited 57×
• Delgado v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-01-14· cited 48×
• Mixon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-27· cited 44×
• Danzig v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-26· cited 44×
• O'BRIANT v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-10-05· cited 41×
• Riddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-29· cited 35×
• Ex Parte Campbell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 24×
• Hubbard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-04-25· cited 21×
• Corte v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1982-06-02· cited 19×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-16· cited 17×
• Adame v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2001-01-10· cited 17×
• Merlin James v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-19· cited 13×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-11· cited 11×

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Day v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-03-17· cited 42×
• Hays v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-05-09· cited 14×
• Schmit v. Guidry
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1967-12-04· cited 9×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1950-11-08· cited 8×
• Shadle v. State
  Texas Supreme Court· 1871-07-01· cited 6×
• Tendler v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1946-12-16· cited 6×