Nelson 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 even if jury believed that defendant killed the complainant because the complainant looked at him with desire, the jury could also believe that defendant killed the complainant in the course of committing robbery
• naming the elements of capital murder where the defendant committed murder in the course of a robbery

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Buggs
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1999-06-28· cited 802×
• Rachal v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-17· cited 768×
• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Heiselbetz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-20· cited 653×
• Medina v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 579×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-27· cited 477×
• Sonnier v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 461×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 452×
• Goff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-22· cited 405×
• Banda v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-14· cited 397×
• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• Pondexter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-16· cited 349×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 341×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-21· cited 296×
• Crittenden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-05-17· cited 187×
• Zimmerman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-07· cited 148×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-06-11· cited 143×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-16· cited 142×
• Maldonado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-06-30· cited 135×
• Broussard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-25· cited 130×

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Beck v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 5,133×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Franklin v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1988-09-15· cited 852×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-01· cited 541×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 297×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-15· cited 294×
• Nobles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-10· cited 267×
• Gribble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-20· cited 251×
• Huffman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-02-03· cited 218×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-15· cited 198×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-29· cited 196×
• Demouchette v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-24· cited 156×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 147×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-20· cited 146×
• Barefield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-12-06· cited 139×
• Fearance v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-12-07· cited 134×
• Gary Graham v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Dept. Of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-01-03· cited 129×