Whatley v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming conviction where jury could reasonably infer appellant was feigning sleep when inappropriately touching complainant
• the defendant could not be found guilty of sexual assault on a child if he was asleep during the alleged assault because the conduct would not have been voluntary
• Texas Penal Code § 6.01(a) requires a voluntary act as an element of guilt
• Texas Penal Code § 6.01(a) requires a voluntary act as an element of guilt
• Texas Penal Code § 6.01(a) requires a voluntary act as an element of guilt
• though child complainant testified that she thought appellant was asleep when he inappropriately touched her, jury could have reasonably inferred that appellant was awake, but feigning sleep, and that his conduct was voluntary

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Johnson
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2016-02-11· cited 524×
• Nisbett, Rex Allen
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-06-27· cited 253×
• Dustin Deutsch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2018-10-23· cited 5×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-31· cited 5×
• Bullock, Henry Richard Jr. A/K/A Imari Abybakari
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-20· cited 4×
• Bolles v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-23· cited 3×
• Vanessa Ivanova Sada v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-03-12· cited 1×
• Alejandro John Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-12-11
• Jerry Don Whatley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2014-12-31
• Juan Blea v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-02-05
• Jeffrey Lee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2015-06-12
• Steve Acosta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-07-07
• Henry Richard Bullock, Jr. AKA Imari Abybakari v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-07-13
• John Michael Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-08-11
• Kevin Antonio Owens v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-04-28
• Michael Wayne Langley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2015-05-20
• Ismael Ortega v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2015-02-11
• Elmer Alvarado v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-10-27
• Robert Wayne Rollins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2016-02-11
• Glen Dale Carter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2016-04-19

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Hooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-01-31· cited 5,494×
• Adanandus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 505×
• Gear v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-06-15· cited 464×
• Padilla v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-10-06· cited 170×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-05-21· cited 169×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-16· cited 6×

Other cases named Whatley v. State

58 other CourtListener records share this case name; the 50 most cited are listed.

• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1998-12-04· cited 92×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-05-14· cited 66×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2006-05-23· cited 60×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-06-17· cited 35×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1996-04-15· cited 34×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-06-04· cited 25×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2014-03-10· cited 24×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-05· cited 20×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1979-09-04· cited 19×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-29· cited 17×
• Whatley v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1954-09-14· cited 16×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-11-06· cited 16×
• Whatley v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1986-06-04· cited 16×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2010-06-08· cited 15×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1988-10-18· cited 13×
• Whatley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-09-20· cited 11×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1999-04-08· cited 11×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1903-06-15· cited 11×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-01-04· cited 10×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-04-13· cited 10×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1974-03-14· cited 10×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2010-11-29· cited 10×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2013-01-22· cited 10×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1973-04-25· cited 9×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-09-29· cited 8×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-16· cited 6×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-05-21· cited 5×
• Whatley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-01-16· cited 4×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-28· cited 3×
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29· cited 3×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1935-03-26· cited 3×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1991-03-29· cited 3×
• Whatley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-08-03· cited 3×
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1948-01-07· cited 2×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1987-06-03· cited 2×
• Whatley v. State
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1979-03-05· cited 2×
• Whatley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-01-30· cited 1×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2012-06-21· cited 1×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2017-05-25· cited 1×
• Whatley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-08-21· cited 1×
• Whatley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1993-03-12· cited 1×
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1999-04-08
• Whatley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-08-25
• Whatley v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2009-08-19
• Whatley v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-09-17
• Whatley v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2015-06-29
• Whatley v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1925-02-03
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1926-11-24
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1927-05-18
• Whatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1971-03-24