Ruiz v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding defendant suffered egregious harm from erroneous charge that failed to properly instruct jury on State’s burden of proof and effectively lowered State’s burden
• failure of judge to instruct jury on State's burden, which effectively lowered State's burden of proof, may have misled jury and was egregious harm
• egregious harm resulted jury not given specific instruction of requirement from failure to instruct jury on State's burden to of unanimity for underlying criminal act
• harm egregious if burden of proof lowered

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ngo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-16· cited 2,169×
• Hutch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-03· cited 1,524×
• Gelinas, James Henry
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-15· cited 238×
• Swearingen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-12-04· cited 110×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 91×
• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-06-21· cited 69×
• Hill v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-08-31· cited 51×
• Brooks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-04-24· cited 50×
• McIntosh v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1993-04-19· cited 43×
• Rainey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-07-24· cited 34×
• Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-03-05· cited 25×
• Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-05-08· cited 25×
• Muhammad v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1995-11-16· cited 15×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-03-13· cited 13×
• Corral v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-06-08· cited 12×
• Grider v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-06-08· cited 8×
• Goodman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-11-20· cited 6×
• Ifren Escobedo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-07-26· cited 6×
• Marvin Harvey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-05-31· cited 3×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-18· cited 2×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-17· cited 378×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-22· cited 336×
• Cumbie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-28· cited 245×
• Cobarrubio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-01-12· cited 175×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-04· cited 168×
• Bradley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 165×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-06· cited 100×
• Gold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 85×
• Schoelman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-01-18· cited 51×
• Castillo-Fuentes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-22· cited 50×
• Ex Parte Chandler
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 21×
• Goff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 20×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 10×
• Ruiz v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-08· cited 4×