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.

• concluding that the appellant was not harmed despite objected-to application paragraph omitting the law of parties definition and names of principal actors in robbery
• holding that where trial court properly defined term in abstract portion of jury charge, trial court was not required to “cut and paste” that definition into the application paragraph
• concluding that jury charge indicated lack of egregious harm when application paragraph did not apply the law of parties but referred to defendant acting “as a party (as herein defined)” and thus referenced abstract portion
• recognizing that “if the application paragraph ‘necessarily and unambiguously’ refers to another paragraph of the jury charge, then a conviction is authorized, and the trial judge need not sua sponte ‘cut and paste’ that definition into the application paragraph”
• explaining that an application paragraph authorizes a conviction where it “necessarily and unambiguously” refers to another paragraph in the jury charge
• explaining that application paragraph “specifies the factual circumstances under which the jury should convict or acquit”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Nava, Andres Maldonado
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-12-18· cited 526×
• Vega, Jose Luis Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-20· cited 213×
• Unkart, Rodney Gale
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-06-05· cited 176×
• Cortez, Damien Hernandez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-17· cited 157×
• Mendez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-04-25· cited 134×
• Yzaguirre, Jay Paul
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-27· cited 69×
• Romeo Hinojosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-05-07· cited 41×
• Kennedy Dewayne Riley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-11-14· cited 29×
• Juan Jose Reyes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2013-10-31· cited 26×
• Ferreira v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-29· cited 24×
• Reginald Ray Washington, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-10-14· cited 18×
• William David Kelley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-04-24· cited 18×
• James Musgrove v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-03-04· cited 17×
• Robert Dale Hines v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2017-10-31· cited 15×
• Fraser v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-09· cited 15×
• Sebastian Nathanial Roys v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2013-11-08· cited 14×
• Simon Rene Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2015-12-09· cited 13×
• Uddin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-10· cited 13×
• Stephen Jonathon Vogt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-12-18· cited 11×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-26· cited 11×

Cites

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

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Malik v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-10· cited 4,984×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-14· cited 1,653×
• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Hutch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-03· cited 1,524×
• Abdnor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-26· cited 1,398×
• Arline v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-12-10· cited 777×
• Posey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-25· cited 696×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 507×
• Olivas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-09-13· cited 366×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-24· cited 360×
• State v. Hardy
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-14· cited 312×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-12-15· cited 256×
• Pearson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-06-09· cited 243×
• Plata v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-26· cited 237×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 158×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-14· cited 125×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-05· cited 123×
• Chatman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-03· cited 74×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 74×