Sanders 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 that the definition of “abduct” does not require that the victim be held any certain length of time
• holding that the definition of A abduct @ does not require that the victim be held any certain length of time
• holding that driving victim around in car on city streets for an hour sufficient evidence of secreting and holding victim in place not likely to be found
• holding that driving victim around in car on city streets for an hour sufficient evidence of secreting and holding victim in place not likely to be found
• observing that “[a]bduction . . . is a continuing offense, “[t]he restraint in abduction does not necessarily ‘occur’ only at one specific time,” and that “[t]here is no time limit for abduction”
• automobile being driven on city streets may be used to restrain victim with intent to prevent liberation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• Earhart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 140×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-22· cited 97×
• Fitzgerald v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-17· cited 95×
• Santellan v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-11-13· cited 85×
• Prudholm v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-16· cited 76×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-27· cited 74×
• Dewalt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-04-01· cited 62×
• Megas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-01-31· cited 61×
• Shipp v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-02-02· cited 53×
• David Shane West v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-07-02· cited 45×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-28· cited 43×
• Fann v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-24· cited 39×
• Gibbons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-22· cited 38×
• Kenny v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-04-30· cited 32×
• Ontiveros v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1994-12-22· cited 16×
• Garza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1982-04-05· cited 10×
• Rios v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-06-27· cited 8×
• Hines v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-03-01· cited 8×
• White v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1985-12-17· cited 7×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Phillips v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-03-26· cited 182×
• Carpenter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-25· cited 22×
• Pollard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-14· cited 19×