Ross v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that charge was appropriate where evidence showed that gun was pointed at victim’s head and “went off” when defendant “shoved” the victim
• holding that “there was not sufficient evidence to raise the issue of involuntary manslaughter”
• remanding case to trial court after finding error and harm resulting from trial court's denial of instruction on lesser-included offense of felony murder
• remanding case to trial court after finding error and harm resulting from trial court's denial of instruction on lesser-included offense of felony murder
• holding involuntary manslaughter lesser included offense of murder
• use of deadly force can support inference of intent to kill unless inference would be unreasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• Schweinle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-07· cited 298×
• McKinney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-11-15· cited 223×
• Ybarra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1995-04-05· cited 103×
• Pitonyak v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-04-25· cited 89×
• Wayne East v. Wayne Scott, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1995-06-09· cited 85×
• Arnold v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-06-14· cited 65×
• Barcenes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1997-05-14· cited 57×
• Roy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-02-15· cited 42×
• Paz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-02-15· cited 35×
• Campbell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2004-01-14· cited 35×
• Hullaby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-06· cited 30×
• Rosales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1995-11-15· cited 29×
• Nevarez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-10-24· cited 28×
• Mohammed v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-10-23· cited 28×
• Matter of V.M.D.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-05-27· cited 28×
• Bartholomew v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-10-19· cited 21×
• Mares v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1995-10-18· cited 15×
• Salinas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1994-11-17· cited 12×
• Hudson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2012-05-11· cited 9×

Cites

25 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Royster v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-23· cited 763×
• Saunders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-05-13· cited 436×
• Aguilar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-09· cited 410×
• Godsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-01· cited 358×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-10· cited 312×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 283×
• Kinnamon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-18· cited 274×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-16· cited 271×
• Lugo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-03-14· cited 252×
• Gribble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-20· cited 251×
• Vargas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 235×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-08· cited 228×
• Dunn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 192×
• Gibbs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 176×
• Cannon v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-27· cited 175×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 144×
• Palafox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-24· cited 114×