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.

• noting that statutory interpretation is a question of law and is reviewed de novo on appeal
• observing that ―we give exclusive effect of a specific provision over a more general provision . . . when the two irreconcilably conflict‖
• requiring statutes to be interpreted according to their “plain language, unless the language is ambiguous or the interpretation would lead to absurd results that the legislature could not have intended”
• courts construe statute according to plain language unless language is ambiguous or would lead to absurd results that legislature could not have intended
• “The ‘chapter’ that this subsection refers to is Chapter 481, the Texas Controlled Substances Act.”
• “Because statutory interpretation is a question of law, this court conducts a de novo review.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Karenev v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-22· cited 453×
• Ramos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-11-18· cited 167×
• Clinton, Katherine
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-12-14· cited 141×
• Tapps v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-09-30· cited 120×
• Mahaffey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-30· cited 89×
• Baird v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-08· cited 85×
• Moore, Jammie Lee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-06-20· cited 78×
• Garner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-05-10· cited 73×
• Nzewi v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-01-24· cited 52×
• Tha Dang Nguyen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-02-08· cited 46×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-15· cited 42×
• Ex Parte Christopher Ruben Zavala
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-12-11· cited 39×
• Uyamadu v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-12-29· cited 33×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-11-12· cited 26×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-07-27· cited 21×
• Ariel Medina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-08· cited 20×
• Melissa Dromgoole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-23· cited 18×
• Dinesh Kumar Shah v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-29· cited 17×
• Benito Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2018-11-01· cited 17×
• Philip Wade Ellison v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-03-25· cited 14×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Boykin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 1,829×
• LaPorte v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-10· cited 266×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-26· cited 190×
• Cheney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-29· cited 169×
• Llamas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-02-16· cited 168×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 85×