State v. Allen

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 trial court could not override the mandatory provision of §12.42(d) in favor of a discretionary sentencing provision available in §12.44(a)
• analyzing mandatory life sentence provision found in a former version of Section 12.42(d), the habitual offender statute
• section 5 12.42(d) applies when the State has proven the enhancement paragraphs and the factfinder has found the enhancement allegation to be true
• section 5 12.42(d) applies when the State has proven the enhancement paragraphs and the factfinder has found the enhancement allegation to be true
• ”Once the two prior felony convictions are found to be true, the mandatory operation of Section 12.42(d) restricts the discretion of the sentencing authority.”
• “…this court determined that the language of Section 12.42(d) expresses the legislative intent that upon proof of certain criteria, the habitual offender statute dictates its mandatory operation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-18· cited 174×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-01-12· cited 36×
• Norris Shannon Baines v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-11-03· cited 30×
• Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-08-24· cited 23×
• Banks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-10-19· cited 23×
• Andres Alfredo Segovia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2015-04-29· cited 22×
• Donaldson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-16· cited 18×
• Reinke v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-10-19· cited 6×
• Washington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-08-24· cited 1×
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  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-10-23
• Paul Vernon Minix, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-07-09
• State v. David Harris
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2005-08-16
• Jordan, Elmer Ray, Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-18
• Brad William Reinke v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2011-07-22
• George Steven Kuhel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-08-25
• Enrique Sanchez Salazar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-01-27
• Rey Barrera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2015-10-14
• Donaldson, Patricia
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-16
• John Kirby v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-06-15
• Barrera, Rey
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-11-20