Watts v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding the court may take judicial notice that the City of Austin is located in Travis County
• stating the court may take judicial notice that the City of Austin is located in Travis County
• stating the court may take judicial notice that the City of Austin is located in Travis County
• noting it “would waste limited judicial resources and defy common sense” to insist that a party prove commonly known or readily ascertainable facts, such as a city’s location
• “Texas courts can, of course, take judicial notice of the laws of this State.”
• “[I]n a criminal case, for purposes of establishing venue, a trial or appellate judge might take judicial notice that the City of Austin, where the offense allegedly occurred, is within Travis County.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Casey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-02-28· cited 971×
• Johnson, Manley Dewayne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-02-26· cited 601×
• Ex Parte Peterson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-10-08· cited 514×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-12-03· cited 467×
• Randolph, Emanuell Glenn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-11-23· cited 132×
• Mosley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-10-27· cited 108×
• Wolfe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-11-12· cited 77×
• Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-12-14· cited 56×
• Shipp v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-02-02· cited 53×
• Chindaphone v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2007-11-08· cited 48×
• Lucio, Pedro Ariel Zarate
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-11-09· cited 47×
• Kubosh v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-11-07· cited 45×
• In Re Graves
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-03-21· cited 44×
• Buchanan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-03-03· cited 40×
• Azeez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-08-29· cited 16×
• State v. Terry Golding
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-14· cited 14×
• Watts v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-07-01· cited 12×
• Daryl Washington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2004-12-14· cited 1×
• Joseph Anthony Crawford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-04-06
• Khanthavong Chindaphone v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2007-11-08

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Culombe v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 1,662×
• Motilla v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-26· cited 1,558×
• McCain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-03-22· cited 634×
• Mercado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-22· cited 310×
• Atkinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-01· cited 186×
• O. B. Harper D-B-A Harper Electric Co. v. Killion
  Texas Supreme Court· 1961-07-19· cited 65×
• James v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-02· cited 60×
• Browning v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 47×
• American Plant Food Corp. v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-26· cited 39×
• Legg v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-27· cited 28×
• Sixta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-03-24· cited 26×
• O'CONNELL v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-04-27· cited 22×
• Watts v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-08-16· cited 21×
• Harper v. Killion
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1961-03-07· cited 14×