Rodriquez 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 defendant charged with assault on a police officer entitled to self-defense instruction and delineating facts admitted by defendant, including his knowledge that complainant was police officer
• ‘Whether the officer used greater force than necessary, and whether appellant’s beliefs, fears and actions were reasonable as required by statute, were also fact issues for the jury....” (emphasis added)
• “Appellant contends the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury on self-defense after timely objection was made.”
• “[W]hether appellant’s beliefs, fears and actions were reasonable as required by statute, were also fact issues for the jury, but the jury was also deprived of the opportunity to decide those issues…”
• “[W]hether appellant’s beliefs, fears and actions were reasonable as required by statute, were also fact issues for the jury, but the jury was also deprived of the opportunity to decide those issues…”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Granger v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-29· cited 440×
• Ferrel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-12· cited 370×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-29· cited 303×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 283×
• Dyson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-27· cited 203×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-18· cited 121×
• Semaire v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-22· cited 61×
• Reed v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-01-08· cited 52×
• Sutton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-16· cited 44×
• Halbert v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-10-26· cited 43×
• State v. Bradley
  Washington Supreme Court· 2000-09-28· cited 42×
• Skeen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-01-22· cited 40×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-22· cited 39×
• Guilbeau v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-03-23· cited 36×
• Lane v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1997-08-28· cited 34×
• Randle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 32×
• Kimbrough v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1996-05-01· cited 28×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2008-11-05· cited 27×
• Armstrong v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-07-07· cited 26×
• Roberts v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1996-05-14· cited 22×