Vaughn v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding DWI conviction where officer testified that he saw appellant‘s car weaving down the road, that appellant was speeding, that appellant‘s eyes were bloodshot, and that appellant told officer he had drunk several beers
• lay witnesses can express an opinion of whether a person is intoxicated based solely on observation
• “It is elementary in Texas that one need not be an expert in order to express an opinion upon whether a person he observes is intoxicated.”
• “It is elementary in Texas that one need not be an expert in order to express an opinion upon whether a person he observes is intoxicated.”
• “It is elementary in Texas that one need not be an expert in order to express an opinion upon whether a person he observes is intoxicated.”
• the evidence was sufficient because there was testimony that the defendant was weaving on the road, the defendant’s eyes were bloodshot, and the defendant said that he had been drinking

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Emerson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 407×
• Cotton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-06· cited 196×
• Texas Department of Public Safety v. Struve
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-07-18· cited 62×
• Russell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2009-05-13· cited 29×
• Charles Paul Kaplan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-08-31
• Lee Eric Cloud v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-05-25
• Lee Eric Cloud v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-04-27
• Blake Taylor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-06-16
• Anthony Leon Summers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-06-02
• Perry Wayne Russell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2009-05-13
• William Patrick Dudley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-09-06
• Texas Department of Public Safety v. Steve Douglas Struve
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-06-20
• Silva, Guadalupe Humberto v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-02-12
• Paula Ticknor v. Edward Doolan
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-07-27
• John Manuel Sanchez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-10-21
• Stephen Kyle Helmcamp v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-01-05
• Clifton Crews Hoyt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2015-02-23
• Clifton Crews Hoyt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2015-12-14
• Paul Craig Scott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2019-04-02
• Gerald Christopher Kronenthal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2020-09-30