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.

• noting that a plurality opinion is not binding precedent
• holding, as one reason witness was not accomplice witness in murder prosecution that witness’s conduct of assisting in washing out pickup truck bed after disposition of victim’s body was not done with culpable mental state to cause victim’s death
• noting that a plurality opinion is not binding precedent
• “Horton’s actions in assisting with the washing of the pickup truck were not done with the intent to cause Schraer’s death nor with the knowledge that such an action would cause the death of Schraer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-03· cited 316×
• Zamora, Jaime Arturo
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-23· cited 118×
• Rogelio Delacerda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-21· cited 55×
• Sebastian Nathanial Roys v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2013-11-08· cited 14×
• Vasquez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-05-05· cited 6×
• Thomas Dixon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2018-12-13· cited 4×
• Vasquez, Anibal
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-03
• Anibal Vasquez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-05-05
• James Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-08-25
• Juan Jimenez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2016-12-15
• John Nathan Cavaness v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-08-08
• Juan Jesus Villarreal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-11-07
• Robert Leon Allen v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2021-08-26
• Nelson v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2010-06-07

Cites

21 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×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 7,264×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Clewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-31· cited 5,788×
• Malik v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-10· cited 4,984×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 4,543×
• Dewberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-20· cited 2,718×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-12· cited 2,381×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-29· cited 1,851×
• Abdnor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-26· cited 1,398×
• Ross v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-05-05· cited 762×
• Druery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-04· cited 719×
• Gallo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-26· cited 687×
• Paredes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-01-14· cited 582×
• Herron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-09· cited 482×
• Wooley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-25· cited 211×
• Garza Vega v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-10-01· cited 154×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-14· cited 133×
• Chatman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-03· cited 74×
• Villareal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-05-10· cited 36×