Riggs v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• Texas Supreme Court “will give effect to all the words of a statute and not treat any statutory language as surplusage ifpossible”
• T exas Supreme Court “will give effect to all the words of a statute and not treat any statutory language as surplusage if possible”
• Texas Supreme Court “will give effect to all the words of a statute and not The Honorable Michael A. McDougal - Page 4 (GA-0150) treat any statutory language as surplusage if possible”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Zamora, Jaime Arturo
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-23· cited 118×
• Badillo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1998-03-12· cited 27×
• Enyeart v. Shelter Mutual Insurance Co.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-12-12· cited 5×
• Harold Joseph Norwood, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-06-08
• Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion
  Texas Attorney General Reports· 2004-07-02
• Untitled Texas Attorney General Opinion
  Texas Attorney General Reports· 2003-07-02
• Jamie Lynell McQueen v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2022-11-17

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-15· cited 993×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-22· cited 336×
• Gamez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 257×
• Mattias v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-29· cited 190×
• Van Guilder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-06· cited 94×
• Gold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 85×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-12-04· cited 69×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-02· cited 67×
• Duhamel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 56×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-27· cited 33×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 13×
• Riggs v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-06· cited 7×