Rice 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 murder for remuneration is not limited to murders for hire
• acknowledging that the Court has consistently adhered to broad construction of the remuneration statute
• “While the definition of remuneration is broad, the actor must expect to gain from some benefit assessed on the death of the victim.”
• “[T]he actor must expect to gain from some benefit assessed on the death of the victim.”
• “The State is obligated to offer some evidence of the defendant’s intent or state of mind as related 11 to an expectation of [tangible] remuneration.”
• “The State is obligated to offer some evidence of the defendant’s intent or state of mind as related to an expectation of [tangible] remuneration.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Urbano v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-10· cited 105×
• Speer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-07-14· cited 18×
• Crawford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-08-31· cited 8×
• Fratta v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-07-22
• Speer, William Keith v. Texas, the State Of
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-07-14
• Reister, Roger v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2003-06-05
• Kathryn Nellie Briggs A/K/A Katie Briggs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2012-08-24
• John Anthony Valdez, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2012-08-24
• Corderral John Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2012-04-12
• Tracy Bernard Burleson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-02-28
• Monica Melissa Patterson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2020-01-23
• Jo Ann Wilbert v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2020-04-16
• Delvin Ajair Powell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2021-04-07
• State v. Rice
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-27
• Rita Young v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2023-07-06
• Dariel Deshaun Greenwood v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2025-05-30

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• O'BRYAN v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-26· cited 233×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Beets v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 143×
• Duff-Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-16· cited 60×