Tate 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, when contraband is not in a defendant’s exclusive possession, the fact-finder may nonetheless infer intentional or knowing possession if sufficient independent facts and circumstances justify that inference
• concluding that ownership of vehicle was relevant in a sufficiency analysis for a conviction for possession of a controlled substance where a syringe of methamphetamine was found in plain view
• holding that jury is sole judge of credibility and weight of witnesses’ testimony and may draw multiple reasonable inferences from facts so long as each is supported by evidence presented at trial
• holding that affirmative links include, among other things, the contraband’s proximity to the defendant, the defendant’s possession of other contraband, incriminating statements by the defendant, and whether the drugs were found in an enclosed area
• explaining that “State’s burden does not require it to disprove every conceivable alternative to a defendant’s guilt”
• noting that “the State must prove that a defendant is guilty beyond a reasonable doubt”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Villa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-03-22· cited 514×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-10-18· cited 73×
• Cary v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-14· cited 49×
• Couthren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-04-17· cited 40×
• Guillermo Flores Medina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2018-12-18· cited 26×
• Hughitt v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-08· cited 24×
• Demoria Harris v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2017-07-26· cited 15×
• Barbosa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-12-06· cited 13×
• Ballard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-07-25· cited 9×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-22· cited 9×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2019-03-27· cited 5×
• Lisandro Beltran De La Torre v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2018-03-15· cited 4×
• Fisk v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-12-06· cited 4×
• Quinton Shandra Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2016-11-22
• David Cary v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2016-12-15
• Darcie Louise Spillers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2017-05-04
• Justin Riordan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2017-08-04
• Shannon Andre Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2017-08-03
• Thomas Santellana Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2017-11-16
• Robert Vajda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2017-12-06

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31· cited 5,494×
• Clayton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-10-10· cited 4,127×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-09-20· cited 1,433×
• Poindexter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-01-12· cited 1,405×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-12-13· cited 1,146×
• Winfrey, Megan AKA Megan Winfrey Hammond
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-02-27· cited 784×
• Ramsey, Donald Lynn A/K/A Donald Lynn Ramsay
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-28· cited 393×
• Deshong v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-12-23· cited 357×
• Roberson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-08-09· cited 288×
• Thornton, Gregory
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-02· cited 270×
• Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-07-28· cited 143×
• Oaks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-01· cited 135×
• Dallas Carl Tate v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-05-18· cited 4×