Rodriguez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \[M]otive refers to an emotion that would provoke or lead to the commission of a criminal offense. Evidence to show motive is the circumstantial evidence that would appear to cause or produce the emotion.\
• “[M]otive refers to an emotion that would provoke or lead to the commission of a criminal offense. Evidence to show motive is the circumstantial evidence that would appear to cause or produce the emotion.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Albrecht v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-09-25· cited 705×
• Crane v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-31· cited 241×
• Womble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-07-01· cited 194×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-03-12· cited 185×
• Felix Sandoval v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-09-13· cited 166×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-28· cited 156×
• Valdez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-05-24· cited 132×
• Barefoot v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-03-12· cited 126×
• Hafdahl v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-12-19· cited 122×
• Bush v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-03· cited 120×
• Halliburton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-15· cited 112×
• Ruiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-21· cited 112×
• Brown v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1987-05-15· cited 85×
• People v. Hoffman
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1997-11-06· cited 73×
• Alvarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-25· cited 70×
• Zuliani v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-08-16· cited 67×
• Foy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-06· cited 58×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-31· cited 52×
• Lazcano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1992-11-25· cited 46×
• Pollard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2008-06-11· cited 45×