Saunders 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 failure to charge jury on criminally negligent homicide was harmless because significant evidence showed that defendant was aware of risk of death, making manslaughter a realistic option for jury
• holding that failure to charge jury on criminally negligent homicide was harmless because significant evidence showed that defendant was aware of risk of death, making manslaughter a realistic option for jury
• recognizing that Clark court held that “any error in the lesser included offense instruction was not fundamental in view of the fact that the jury convicted [the appellant] of the greater offense of capital murder”
• holding that the jury’s failure to find an intervening lesser- included offense—one that is between the requested lesser offense and the offense charge— may, in appropriate circumstances, render a failure to submit the requested lesser offense harmless.
• holding “that because the jury did not opt to convict appellant of involuntary manslaughter, failure to authorize conviction for negligent homicide was harmless”
• holding because jury convicted defendant of greater offense rather than of submitted lesser-included charge, failure to submit requested but different lesser-included charge harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lucio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 574×
• Braughton, Christopher Ernest
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-12-19· cited 398×
• v. Rigsby
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2020-09-14· cited 268×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-05-31· cited 265×
• Arevalo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-03-19· cited 252×
• Goad, Joshua Lee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-11-09· cited 207×
• Grey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-11-18· cited 150×
• Masterson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-02-02· cited 147×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-25· cited 134×
• Ex Parte Lane
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-12-16· cited 114×
• Wasylina v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-01-28· cited 66×
• Otting v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-02-03· cited 59×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2004-12-15· cited 43×
• O'BRIEN v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-11-27· cited 37×
• Campbell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2004-01-14· cited 35×
• Ray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-05-01· cited 32×
• Orona v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2011-07-27· cited 29×
• Bulington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-11-01· cited 23×
• Levan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2003-03-05· cited 22×
• Roger Charles Bridges v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-10-16· cited 21×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Beck v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-20· cited 2,209×
• Arline v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-12-10· cited 777×
• Saunders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-05-13· cited 436×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-29· cited 303×
• DeRusse v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-04-11· cited 155×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 149×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-08· cited 132×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-05· cited 123×
• Gibson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-04· cited 105×
• O'Pry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-22· cited 80×
• Govan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-09· cited 61×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-01· cited 56×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-19· cited 46×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-11-10· cited 46×
• Saunders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1989-11-09· cited 15×
• McCloud v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1985-06-13· cited 14×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-05-29· cited 8×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-10-26· cited 6×
• Saunders v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-02-28· cited 6×