Reynolds 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, to rule on the admissibility of the test results, the trial court need only determine whether the technique was properly applied on the occasion in question
• stating that Legislature has determined that “the underlying scientific theory” for measuring alcohol concentration by analysis of breath specimens is “valid.”
• applying standard in Kelly v. State , 824 S.W.2d 568, 572 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992) to breath-test results
• officer’s knowledge of nearby festival, odor of alcohol, bloodshot eyes, and admission of some drinking sufficient to warrant field sobriety test
• scientific evidence is presumed to satisfy the Kelly test
• trial court satisfies gate- keeping function to determine whether technique used in breath test was properly applied “[a]s long as the operator knows the protocol involved in administering the test and can testify that he followed it on the occasion in question . . .”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rhomer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-01-30· cited 245×
• State of Texas v. Esparza, Carlos
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-30· cited 110×
• State v. Robinson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-16· cited 108×
• Thomas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-01-28· cited 26×
• State v. Rudd
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-07-02· cited 24×
• Scillitani v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-21· cited 22×
• State v. Amaya
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2007-03-22· cited 19×
• Melissa Dromgoole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-23· cited 18×
• Andrew J. Serrano v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-05· cited 16×
• Bolen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2010-08-24· cited 14×
• State v. Carlos Esparza
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2011-10-26· cited 13×
• Michael Lee Thom v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-06-19· cited 12×
• Adam Terrell Rhyne v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-11-21· cited 9×
• Karl Frederick Schultz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-11-20· cited 7×
• Elio Raul Trigo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-04· cited 7×
• Contreras v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2010-09-09
• Melissa Dromgoole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-08-25
• Charlie MacK Thomas, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-11-30
• Donald Wayne Read v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2007-03-29
• State v. Leonardo Sanchez Amaya
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2007-03-22

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kelly v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-02-05· cited 1,156×
• Mireles v. Texas Department of Public Safety
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-12-09· cited 310×
• Hartman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-04-23· cited 208×
• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-01· cited 177×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1953-03-04· cited 91×
• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-02-16· cited 85×
• Slagle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-09-20· cited 54×
• Harrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-12-17· cited 52×
• Stevenson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 42×
• Cody v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-23· cited 30×
• French v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-09-25· cited 26×
• Palafox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-05· cited 19×
• Bumpus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-15· cited 13×
• Reynolds v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2005-06-21· cited 11×
• Reyna v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-01· cited 10×
• Fluitt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1960-02-10· cited 10×