Robbins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing concurrent cause not presented where actor denies committing charged conduct
• clarifying the “unless” language to constitute a limitation on concurrent causes
• “If concurrent causes are present, two possible combinations exist to satisfy the “but for” requirement: (1) the defendant’s conduct may be sufficient by itself to have caused the harm, regardless of the existence of a concurrent cause; or (2

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Zuniga v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-04-21· cited 2,472×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 341×
• Patterson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-02-15· cited 170×
• Dowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 136×
• Wooten v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-07-22· cited 80×
• St. Clair v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-07-12· cited 70×
• Umoja v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-04-16· cited 70×
• Marvis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-01-31· cited 64×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-07-07· cited 57×
• Grotti v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-11-17· cited 54×
• McKinney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-11-02· cited 40×
• Standerford v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-03· cited 37×
• Hutcheson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1995-05-15· cited 36×
• Staley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1994-08-30· cited 30×
• Neumuller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1997-09-11· cited 29×
• Hale v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2006-05-09· cited 29×
• Contreras v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-01-27· cited 25×
• Medina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-04-08· cited 25×
• Port v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-12-19· cited 25×
• Otto v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2004-06-23· cited 20×