Watson 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 possession of two different Penalty 1 substances, i.e., heroin and cocaine, with intent to deliver constituted two separate offenses
• holding that possession of heroin and possession of cocaine were separate offenses even though they arose out of a single transaction
• holding that possession of two different Penalty 1 substances, i.e., heroin and cocaine, with intent to deliver constituted two separate offenses
• holding that possession of cocaine is a different crime than possession of heroin
• holding that the appellant waived the argument on the joinder of offenses on appeal because he failed to file a motion to sever with the trial court pursuant to Section 481.132 of the Texas Health and Safety Code
• “We hold that the Legislature intended to make possession of each individual substance within the same penalty group a separate and distinct offense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-02-24· cited 385×
• Broussard, Kenneth
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-04-12· cited 216×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-06-11· cited 181×
• Vineyard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-07· cited 112×
• Saucedo, Andrew Melchor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-06-26· cited 112×
• State v. Colyandro
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 98×
• Hendrix v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-16· cited 87×
• Thacker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-07-15· cited 72×
• Gonzales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-06-06· cited 35×
• Pena-Mota v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-02-03· cited 31×
• Ex Parte Gonzalez
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2004-11-17· cited 27×
• Nichols v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2001-08-02· cited 25×
• Fenoglio v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-03-13· cited 24×
• Addicks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-03-30· cited 24×
• Sanchez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-07-25· cited 20×
• Villanueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-06-08· cited 12×
• Gallegos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-02-23· cited 12×
• Ex Parte Matthew Leachman
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2018-06-19· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2010-01-13· cited 9×
• Voisinet v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-01-17· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• United States v. Dixon
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-28· cited 2,221×
• Alabama v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-12· cited 1,589×
• Marin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 1,480×
• Garrett v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1985-08-28· cited 1,001×
• Studer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-21· cited 503×
• LaPorte v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-10· cited 266×
• Ex Parte McWilliams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-12· cited 259×
• Ex Parte Rathmell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 163×
• State v. Hall
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 151×
• Cervantes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-05· cited 133×
• Ex Parte Kopecky
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-08· cited 126×
• Spradling v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 92×
• Ex Parte Siller
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 85×
• Iglehart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 73×
• Ex Parte Wilson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-17· cited 45×
• Ex Parte Crosby
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-02-05· cited 42×
• Basden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-08· cited 38×
• Crowl v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-02· cited 30×