Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

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• “An ‘imminent harm’ occurs when there is an emergency situation, and it is ‘immediately necessary’ to avoid that harm when a split-second decision is required without time to consider the law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-31· cited 5,788×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 4,543×
• Texas Department of Public Safety v. Petta
  Texas Supreme Court· 2001-06-07· cited 353×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-05-31· cited 265×
• Pennington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-10-04· cited 100×
• Stefanoff v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-06-19· cited 100×
• Arnwine v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-04-11· cited 66×
• Dewalt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-04-01· cited 62×
• McGarity v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-06-02· cited 62×
• Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-12-14· cited 56×
• Pine v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-22· cited 46×
• Schier v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-11-01· cited 32×
• Streff v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1994-11-03· cited 18×
• Mares v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1995-10-18· cited 15×
• Larry Medlin Scroggs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2010-05-19· cited 15×
• Herbst v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1997-04-03· cited 13×
• Choice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-08-11· cited 9×
• House v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1994-07-14· cited 8×
• Barbara Holz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-09-30· cited 6×
• Elliott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2009-06-24· cited 1×