Vasquez 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 State must prove in statutory rape case that complainant was under seventeen, but need not prove defendant knew complainant’s age
• holding legislature did not intend to require a mental state in regard to the age of the child in prosecutions under statutory rape provision
• holding legislature did not intend to require a mental state in regard to the age of the child in prosecutions under statutory rape provision
• declining to apply mistake-of-fact defense to sexual assault of child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-13· cited 118×
• Fleming, Mark Alexander
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-06-18· cited 50×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-25· cited 49×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-23· cited 37×
• Zubia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-06-09· cited 32×
• State v. Yanez
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1998-08-04· cited 32×
• Roof v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-03-14· cited 27×
• Grice v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-03-08· cited 27×
• Sonny Ray Byrne v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-11-16· cited 27×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-15· cited 23×
• Dinh v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1985-08-15· cited 5×
• Jose L. Mateo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-12-05· cited 5×
• Jacobs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-08-24· cited 3×
• Coy, Carlos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-11-06
• Dwyatt Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-04-13
• Dennis Harold Griffin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-11-08
• Darrell Wayne Wright v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2007-03-22
• Dunstan Tamba Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2008-10-16
• Juan Guerrero, III v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2006-05-03
• Buck Edward Marshall, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2004-09-23

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Michael M. v. Superior Court of Sonoma County
  Supreme Court· 1981-03-23· cited 352×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-12-14· cited 208×
• Ex Parte Groves
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-04· cited 119×
• Ex Parte Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-09-20· cited 17×