Williams 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 any error in not submitting fact issue of safeness to jury was not egregious harm where safeness was not even incidental theory of defense and where error had minimal impact on appellant's trial
• holding no egregious harm resulted where charge error affected issue that “was not a hotly- contested issue at trial” and thus “had minimal impact on appellant’s trial”
• construing \safe place\ mitigating factor under the old law to be a defensive issue
• taking guidance from § 2.03(e) to treat the “safe place’’ issue like a defense, but at the punishment stage of trial
• taking guidance from § 2.03(e) in determining that the safe-place punishment-mitigation issue for the offense of aggravated kidnapping should be treated like a defense for burden-of-proof purposes
• construing “safe place” mitigating factor under the old law to be a defensive issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hutch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-03· cited 1,524×
• Posey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-25· cited 696×
• Camacho v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-13· cited 440×
• Matchett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 343×
• Trevino v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-26· cited 279×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-11· cited 195×
• Buchanan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-29· cited 136×
• Bill Boyd Kuhn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-01-31· cited 121×
• Butcher, Charles E. Ii
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-01-28· cited 94×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-12· cited 71×
• London v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2009-04-29· cited 61×
• Teer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-24· cited 56×
• Mata v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-02-05· cited 56×
• Harrell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-01-24· cited 51×
• Storr v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-01-22· cited 51×
• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-08-25· cited 34×
• White, Brian Jason
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-06-13· cited 33×
• Spakes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 31×
• Buchanan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-03-31· cited 30×
• Zinger v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-05-24· cited 25×

Cites

23 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×
• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• McMillan v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-19· cited 1,908×
• Martin v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1987-04-20· cited 540×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-17· cited 378×
• Blott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-03· cited 314×
• Cumbie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-28· cited 245×
• Sattiewhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-10-25· cited 187×
• Cobarrubio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-01-12· cited 175×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-16· cited 150×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-24· cited 139×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-06· cited 100×
• Lomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-22· cited 64×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-20· cited 58×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-01· cited 56×
• Ruiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-18· cited 56×
• Castillo-Fuentes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-22· cited 50×
• Uribe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-04-17· cited 30×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1986-08-29· cited 23×
• Butler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-23· cited 21×