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 furtive gestures, like fidgeting in the back of a patrol car, could rationally have linked the defendant with narcotics later found in the seat of the patrol car
• holding that furtive gestures, like fidgeting in the back of a patrol car, could rationally have linked the defendant with narcotics later found in the seat of the patrol car
• holding that evidence was sufficient to support conviction where the officer had searched his car before arresting the defendant and the defendant was seen “fidgeting, reaching and rubbing” while in the car
• an appellate court may not secondguess the finding at trial so long as some rational factfinder could conclude that any remaining doubts or outstanding hypotheses are not reasonable
• where similar evidence was held to be legally sufficient to support conviction
• where similar evidence was held to be legally sufficient to support conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Parra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1996-10-25· cited 62×
• Puente v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1994-11-02· cited 51×
• Granados v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-12-10· cited 36×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-21· cited 17×
• Henry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-08· cited 15×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-12-20· cited 11×
• Lucious v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-02-27· cited 10×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-12-17· cited 8×
• Ethridge v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-08-09· cited 6×
• Boulden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-01· cited 5×
• State v. Rodrigues.
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2012-10-12· cited 4×
• State v. Rodrigues
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2010-01-28· cited 4×
• Gilmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-22· cited 4×
• Olurebi v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-10-17· cited 3×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-21· cited 3×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-02-28· cited 2×
• Goracki, Eugene M. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-04-11
• R. B. Ethridge v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-01-25
• Brian Thompson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-10-27
• Billy Denzel Shell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-05-15

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Humason v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-18· cited 309×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-04-26· cited 1×