Beck 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 it is not prejudicial for a prosecutor to inform the jury panel during voir dire that he is obligated to see that justice is done
• informing the jury panel that a prosecutor is, under law, obligated to see that justice is done cannot be prejudicial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ovalle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-03-08· cited 800×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-31· cited 123×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-01· cited 55×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-16· cited 50×
• Kirkpatrick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-12-22· cited 49×
• Turner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1987-07-15· cited 10×
• State v. Panetti
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1995-04-05· cited 8×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1987-09-18· cited 7×
• Mendez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1986-08-29· cited 7×
• Rule v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-06· cited 5×
• David Cruz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2007-11-15
• Jerry Hannah v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-05-06
• MCKANE, OTIS TYRONE v. the State of Texas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2025-10-30
• Darius Castille v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2026-05-28

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• United States v. Hasting
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 1,999×
• Schneble v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-21· cited 1,324×
• Milton v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 824×
• Burley Clifton Harryman v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-05-09· cited 157×
• Crawford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 113×
• United States v. Keith Bryan Webb
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-03-04· cited 55×
• Bridger v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-09· cited 47×
• Sammie Felder, Jr. v. O.L. McCotter Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-08-23· cited 28×
• Beck v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-10-25· cited 6×