State v. Cortez

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an officer was not justified in stopping the defendant under section 545.058(a
• holding that an officer lacked reasonable suspicion to conduct a traffic stop where the trial court found that it was unclear from the officer’s dashcam video if the defendant’s tires were touching the shoulder line
• stating that an appellate court reviews a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress under the standard of abused discretion
• stating that we review rulings on motions to suppress for abuse of discretion
• noting that the reasonable-suspicion standard is an objective, rather than subjective, standard
• appellate court reviews de novo application of law to facts that do not turn on credibility and demeanor and whether circumstances support existence of reasonable suspicion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Estes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-05-09· cited 54×
• State v. Martin Rivera Lopez
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2018-10-24· cited 3×
• State v. Martin Rivera Lopez
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2018-08-15
• Ruben Alejandro Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-10-05
• Richard Anthony Galindo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2019-02-13
• Christopher Raymond Cisneros v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2019-03-19
• Ruben Nunez-Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2019-06-19
• King Soloman Malone v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2019-08-22
• State v. Thomas Fikes
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2019-09-06
• Sammy Banegas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2019-11-25
• State v. Charles Joseph Meras
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2020-01-08
• in the Matter of J. A. F.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2020-02-12
• Hoang Thanh Dang v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2020-04-02
• Carrie Kathleen Burleson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2020-04-17
• Avery Lynn Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2020-08-06
• Frank Phillip McNabb AKA Frank McNabb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2020-08-12
• State v. Ronald W. McMahan, Jr.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2020-09-04
• State v. Zachary Jones
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2020-09-09
• Price, Braden Daniel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2020-09-23
• Frank Enns, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2020-10-15

Cites

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

• Wong Sun v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-01-14· cited 12,871×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 7,264×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Florida v. Jimeno
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-23· cited 2,277×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-09· cited 1,663×
• Kothe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-20· cited 930×
• United States v. Santos
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-02· cited 812×
• State v. Dixon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-14· cited 810×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-04-18· cited 766×
• Crain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-30· cited 681×
• Madden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-12-19· cited 672×
• Heien v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 2014-12-15· cited 619×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-28· cited 505×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-06-29· cited 381×
• Amador v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-01-14· cited 359×
• United States v. Granderson
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-22· cited 311×
• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 294×
• Wade, Christopher James
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-09-11· cited 271×
• Johnston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-09-15· cited 247×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-05-31· cited 233×

Other cases named State v. Cortez

47 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• State v. Cortez
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1974-05-16· cited 36×
• State v. Cortez
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1996-12-18· cited 28×
• State v. Cortez
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2001-03-07· cited 22×
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1994-04-21· cited 21×
• State v. Cortez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-28· cited 20×
• State v. Cortez
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2013-08-07· cited 13×
• State v. Cortez
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1966-09-28· cited 11×
• State v. Cortez
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1987-02-09· cited 10×
• State v. Cortez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2007-02-22· cited 9×
• State v. Cortez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 1983-02-03· cited 8×
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-10-12· cited 8×
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2000-09-07· cited 7×
• State v. Cortez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2007-05-11· cited 7×
• State v. Cortez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1983-02-03· cited 6×
• State v. Cortez
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2012-05-22· cited 6×
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1972-06-15· cited 5×
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1961-04-24· cited 5×
• State v. Cortez
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 1992-07-30· cited 4×
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1965-12-10· cited 4×
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of North Carolina· 2011-04-19· cited 3×
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-05-03· cited 3×
• State v. Cortez
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2014-09-03· cited 2×
• State v. Cortez
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2016-02-26· cited 2×
• State v. Cortez
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2022-11-07· cited 2×
• State v. Cortez
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2017-10-10· cited 1×
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2011-08-25
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2011-08-25
• State v. Cortez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2007-05-11
• State v. Cortez
  New Mexico Supreme Court· 2008-02-12
• State v. Cortez
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2015-10-12
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2000-09-01
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2008-06-09
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2011-03-08
• State v. Cortez
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1983-05-24
• State v. Cortez
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1999-08-27
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of North Carolina· 2014-01-23
• State v. Cortez
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2008-04-09
• State v. Cortez
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2008-04-09
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1989-07-25
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2016-12-06
• State v. Cortez
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 2016-12-20
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1983-02-02
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1988-06-07
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 2003-03-14
• State v. Cortez
  Montana Supreme Court· 2010-05-06
• State v. Cortez
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2018-10-05
• State v. Cortez
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2025-12-23