Rivera v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \The State need neither plead nor prove a burglar's intent to commit a felony or theft upon entry under (a)(3) of V.T.C.A Penal Code 30.02.\
• State is not required to prove that Appellant intended to commit theft when he entered the habitation
• jailhouse statements considered as part of sufficiency of evidence challenge
• jailhouse statements considered as part of sufficiency of evidence challenge
• the prosecution has no general duty to disclose inculpatory evidence
• “[I]n this case, there was no violation of the rule because the evidence showed that the Deuchers had not yet come forward on the first day of trial; they were not known to be witnesses, and were not covered by the invocation of the rule on the first day.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 507×
• Rabbani v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 293×
• Erdman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-05-19· cited 265×
• Belton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-06-21· cited 204×
• Goldberg v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-08-22· cited 170×
• Willingham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-22· cited 93×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-12· cited 89×
• Green v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1993-01-27· cited 64×
• Flores v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-09-14· cited 62×
• Fox v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-15· cited 55×
• Espinosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1995-06-01· cited 48×
• Teague v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-23· cited 45×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-15· cited 45×
• Mungia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1995-12-14· cited 37×
• Espinoza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-11-05· cited 35×
• Sierra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-08-21· cited 32×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-16· cited 28×
• Thomas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1993-10-26· cited 28×
• Furbay v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2000-05-04· cited 25×