Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the confession and avoidance doctrine applied to one of the State's theories of guilt because of the defendant's denial of the proscribed mental state
• holding defendant’s testimony raised issue of necessity defense even though defendant’s version of facts was controverted by police officer
• finding entitlement to a necessity defense instruction for aggravated robbery even though defendant denied any intent to deprive the officer of his gun as part of the underlying theft

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-26· cited 353×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-08· cited 228×
• Juarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-03-31· cited 193×
• 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×
• Cornet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-01-25· cited 79×
• Gonzales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-08-31· cited 61×
• East v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-05-01· cited 53×
• Bowen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-05-04· cited 50×
• Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-12-09· cited 47×
• Bufkin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-10-20· cited 41×
• Aldrich v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2001-08-30· cited 31×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-27· cited 28×
• Sidney v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-08-14· cited 7×
• Gibbons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-03-10· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-07-17· cited 6×
• Young v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-20· cited 4×
• Bridgette Elaine Bates v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-11-10
• Kevin Edward Goodrich v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-05-10
• Mildred Elam v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1992-11-18