Reyna 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 when victim’s conduct was ambiguously aggressive, prior, specific acts of violence are admissible only so far as they tend to explain the victim’s conduct
• holding that the decision to admit or exclude evidence is erroneous if it evinces abused discretion and that its discretion is so abused when the decision falls outside the zone of reasonable disagreement
• holding that the decision to admit or exclude evidence is erroneous if it evinces abused discretion and that its discretion is so abused when the decision falls outside the zone of reasonable disagreement
• holding that the decision to admit or exclude evidence is erroneous if it evinces abused discretion and that its discretion is so abused when the decision falls outside the zone of reasonable disagreement
• explaining that such evidence of prior acts is admissible to show that “the deceased was the first aggressor”
• finding that the complainant’s conduct of allegedly flashing his gun at the appellant and of allegedly shooting the appellant first are unambiguous acts of aggression and violence that need no explanation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-08-24· cited 190×
• Phillip Bundy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-01-15· cited 76×
• London v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2009-04-29· cited 61×
• James v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-02-10· cited 47×
• Mai v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-02-09· cited 38×
• Marrow v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-09-14· cited 35×
• West v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-26· cited 24×
• Paita v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-11· cited 16×
• Caldwell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-11-29· cited 13×
• Paita, Angel Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-11
• in the Matter of B.M.N.
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2003-08-27
• Perry Collins West v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2005-05-26
• Rick Louis Mai v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-02-09
• Karl Fitzgerald Walker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2008-01-31
• Samuel Heath Cochran v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-04-18
• Benny L. Cole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-01-16
• Marina Simpson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2007-01-25
• William Carroll Marrow v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-06-15
• Sabin Trent Wright v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2007-08-30
• in the Matter of D. A. H., a Juvenile
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2008-08-27

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Burden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-19· cited 955×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-03· cited 443×
• Delk v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-21· cited 366×
• Tompkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 307×
• Prescott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-27· cited 165×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-10· cited 135×
• Tompkins v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-11· cited 134×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-14· cited 72×
• Medina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1992-03-31· cited 17×