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.

• deciding that defendant's testimony that she did not commit capital murder, if believed by the jurors, would have supported only an acquittal, not a conviction for the lesser-included offense of injury to a child
• deciding that defendant’s testimony that she did not commit capital murder, if believed by the jurors, would have supported only an acquittal, not a conviction for the lesser-included offense of injury to a child
• deciding that defendant’s testimony that she did not commit capital murder, if believed by the jurors, would have supported only an acquittal, not a conviction for the lesser-included offense of injury to a child
• deciding that defendant's testimony that she did not commit capital murder, if believed by the jurors, would have supported only an acquittal, not a conviction for the lesser-included offense of injury to a child
• stating that “[a]ny conflict in the testimony concerning the severity, extent, and cause of [the child’s] injuries . . . was for the jury to resolve.”
• holding evidence was sufficient in injury to child ease when medical examiner testified that child’s injuries could not have occurred as defendant described and were sustained by violent physical abuse at time when defendant was alone with child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lucio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 574×
• Michelle Elaine Bearnth v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-10-27· cited 55×
• Dennis Steele v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-03-01· cited 20×
• Triston Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-01-23· cited 14×
• Shawn Mayreis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-24· cited 10×
• Gerard Reginald Leassear v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-23· cited 4×
• Jose Alfonso Aviles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2015-01-30
• Alice Annette Steele v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-03-23
• Aimee Andrea Fisher-Riza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-12-03
• Lucio, Melissa Elizabeth
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14
• Nichole Turner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-08-08
• Nichole Turner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-06-17
• Nichole Turner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-04-30
• Iniubong Ebong v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-04-09
• Ronney Weems v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-12-20
• Jermaine C. Mitchell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-08-31
• Akeem Parrilla v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-01-23
• Cristina Gonzalez Tijerina v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2012-08-16
• Vanessa Zuniga v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2012-06-21
• Joshua Wensel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2011-09-30

Cites

33 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-02-09· cited 6,445×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 4,543×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-12-18· cited 3,887×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 2,567×
• Sims v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-12· cited 2,381×
• Missouri v. Hunter
  Supreme Court· 1983-01-19· cited 2,324×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-04-15· cited 1,896×
• Lancon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-05-14· cited 1,537×
• Rousseau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-24· cited 1,521×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-05-09· cited 1,181×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-13· cited 1,078×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-03-20· cited 924×
• Gallo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-26· cited 687×
• Bignall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-11-16· cited 684×
• Sonnier v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 461×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-03· cited 443×
• Ervin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-01-13· cited 381×
• Langs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-01-25· cited 331×
• Resendiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-06-18· cited 301×