Shaw 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 a defendant’s defensive evidence, not an outright admission, must admit to the conduct
• holding that defendant entitled to instruction on defensive theory regardless of whether evidence supporting theory is weak or contradicted, or when trial court believes supporting evidence is not credible
• holding that “a defensive instruction is appropriate only when the defendant’s defensive evidence essentially admits to every element of the offense including the culpable mental state, but interposes the justification to excuse the otherwise criminal conduct”
• explaining that “evidence must be such that it will support a rational jury finding as to each element of the defense”
• finding that a defensive instruction is appropriate only when the defendant’s defensive evidence essentially admits to every element of the offense
• holding defendant is entitled to jury instruction on justification defense only when his defensive evidence essentially admits to every element of offense, including culpable mental state

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Juarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-03-31· cited 193×
• Celis, Mauricio Rodriguez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-15· cited 191×
• Bill Boyd Kuhn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-01-31· cited 121×
• Ex parte Ingram
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-28· cited 101×
• Krajcovic v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-06· cited 97×
• Gamino, Cesar Alejandro
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-09-27· cited 96×
• Cornet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-11-06· cited 92×
• Villa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-11-06· cited 89×
• Farmer, Kody William
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-09· cited 86×
• Cornet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-01-25· cited 79×
• Roberto Sanchez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-11-27· cited 64×
• Dewalt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-04-01· cited 62×
• Beltran, Ricardo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-14· cited 56×
• Fleming, Mark Alexander
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-18· cited 50×
• Damian Lamon Murkledove v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-05-15· cited 47×
• Lidio Barrios v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2012-12-14· cited 39×
• Joshua Reynolds v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-05-24· cited 34×
• Shawn Pierre Lee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-07-30· cited 32×
• Harold L. Graves, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-12-15· cited 30×
• Jeremy Deshawn Dugar v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-09· cited 29×

Cites

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

• Zuliani v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-05· cited 1,844×
• Solomon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-20· cited 1,266×
• Saxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-27· cited 1,233×
• Muniz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-06· cited 1,228×
• Ortiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-09-25· cited 644×
• Ferrel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-12· cited 370×
• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-26· cited 353×
• Jefferson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-04-12· cited 341×
• Ex Parte Nailor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-03-24· cited 332×
• Tompkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 307×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-29· cited 303×
• Arevalo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-03-19· cited 252×
• Giesberg v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-30· cited 231×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-05· cited 194×
• Tompkins v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1989-08-11· cited 134×
• Booth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-13· cited 117×
• Woodfox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-12-02· cited 109×
• Seefurth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-12-06· cited 86×
• Reese v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-08· cited 70×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-12-16· cited 64×

Other cases named Shaw v. State

350 other CourtListener records share this case name; the 50 most cited are listed.

• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-10-15· cited 350×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-05-06· cited 147×
• Shaw v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-11-09· cited 126×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-11· cited 80×
• Shaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2005-08-04· cited 67×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1889-05-20· cited 67×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1897-11-15· cited 61×
• Shaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-02-27· cited 46×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-02-23· cited 46×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1968-11-20· cited 37×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-09-08· cited 37×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1989-07-10· cited 35×
• Shaw v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1985-01-15· cited 34×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1983-06-06· cited 33×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-21· cited 32×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1978-04-18· cited 30×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1999-06-15· cited 29×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-11-02· cited 29×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-01-28· cited 27×
• Shaw v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-11-20· cited 27×
• Shaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1979-12-19· cited 27×
• Shaw v. State
  Texas Supreme Court· 1865-07-01· cited 27×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1994-01-12· cited 25×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1878-01-15· cited 24×
• Shaw v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-12-24· cited 23×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-12-17· cited 22×
• Shaw v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-01-31· cited 21×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1991-10-08· cited 20×
• Shaw v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1987-04-09· cited 20×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-11-05· cited 19×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1986-07-09· cited 19×
• Shaw v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-01-03· cited 18×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2014-07-18· cited 18×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-07· cited 17×
• Shaw v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1901-10-15· cited 17×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2001-02-07· cited 16×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-12· cited 16×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1971-09-08· cited 16×
• Shaw v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-03-12· cited 15×
• Shaw v. State
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-01-24· cited 13×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2006-03-24· cited 13×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2017-04-17· cited 13×
• Shaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1851-01-15· cited 13×
• Shaw v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-12-31· cited 12×
• Shaw v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1978-10-23· cited 12×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-05-09· cited 11×
• Shaw v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1966-01-18· cited 11×
• Shaw v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1990-07-09· cited 11×
• Shaw v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-22· cited 11×
• Shaw v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2009-02-12· cited 11×