Phillips 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 evidence that defendant failed to perform promise is insufficient evidence of deception
• holding that evidence that defendant failed to perform promise is insufficient evidence of deception
• holding that absent any evidence of deception by false impression of law or fact, contractor who failed tp perform contract to build home addition was not guilty of theft bjit merely failure to perform the contract
• holding evidence legally insufficient to show criminal intent to commit theft when contractor received down payment and failed to perform anything under agreement because no evidence showed deception by contractor
• \The only evidence presented was appellant's failure to perform... which ... is not sufficient to prove deception.\
• absent any evidence of deception by false impression of law or fact, contractor who failed to perform contract to build home addition was not guilty of theft, but merely a failure to perform the contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Christensen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-12-05· cited 90×
• Baker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1998-12-30· cited 72×
• Jacobs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-07-27· cited 62×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-01· cited 48×
• Billy R. Higginbotham, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-12-14· cited 47×
• Ehrhardt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-02-25· cited 37×
• Taylor, Henry Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-12-10· cited 36×
• Ellis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-05-12· cited 32×
• Roper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 30×
• Bruce Randol Merryman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2012-11-30· cited 24×
• Miller v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-02-13· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. True
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1983-10-14· cited 19×
• Phares v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2009-11-12· cited 17×
• McElroy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1984-01-23· cited 14×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2010-05-13· cited 12×
• State v. Neal
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1984-10-10· cited 7×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-08· cited 7×
• Henke v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1987-04-16· cited 6×
• Henry Taylor, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2013-12-13· cited 4×
• Donna Gayle Holcomb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-28· cited 2×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Cortez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-04-11· cited 35×