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Saxton v. State

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Good law
Court
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Citation
804 S.W.2d 910
Decided
Confirmed treatments
0
Flagged citations read
100 of 100
Citing cases (total)
1,233
Good law
Every flagged citation to this case has been read, and none of them overrules, limits, or questions it. Saxton v. State remains good law: all 100 flagged citations have been read, and none adversely treated the decision. The reviewed opinions repeatedly applied Saxton's rules that the State bears a burden of persuasion rather than production when self-defense is raised, that sufficiency review asks whether a rational factfinder could reject the defense beyond a reasonable doubt, and that the factfinder may accept or reject defensive evidence.
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Nearby adverse language concerned Saxton's own treatment of Jenkins, later treatment of Clewis, Alvarado, Brown, and other authorities, rulings that overruled an appellant's issue, or rejected arguments about other precedents.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

1,233 later cases cite Saxton v. State; 100 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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No reviewed court has overruled or limited this case.

Every one of the 100 flagged citations was read, and each turned out to be something other than adverse treatment: a routine application, a party's argument the court rejected, or the case itself discussing older law. That reading is the finding this page exists to report.

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