Bell 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 convicting court must order DNA testing only if the statutory conditions are met
• holding that identity was not at issue when appellant confessed to the charged offense but did not also plead guilty
• holding that evidence of another person's DNA at the crime scene will not, without 'more, constitute affirmative evidence of a defendant's innocence
• holding that convicting court must order DNA testing only if the statutory conditions are met
• holding that convicting court must order DNA testing only if the statutory conditions are met
• holding that identity was not at issue when appellant confessed to the charged offense but did not also plead guilty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ex Parte Gutierrez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-05-04· cited 235×
• Buntion v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-01-27· cited 191×
• Prible v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-02-13· cited 151×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-03-01· cited 94×
• Reger v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2007-03-22· cited 87×
• Bohannan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-11-22· cited 71×
• Skinner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-12-10· cited 67×
• Martin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-09-20· cited 50×
• Morris v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2003-04-17· cited 44×
• Dunning v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-04-03· cited 35×
• Hooks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2006-08-09· cited 31×
• State Ex Rel. Richey v. Hill
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2004-07-06· cited 23×
• Weems v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-04-26· cited 21×
• Hughes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-05-25· cited 19×
• Birdwell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-12-17· cited 18×
• Lyon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-02-04· cited 17×
• Ard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-03-22· cited 15×
• Baranowski v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-11-02· cited 14×
• Roy Dale Glover v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-09-25· cited 12×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2010-11-10· cited 8×

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Herrera v. Collins
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 3,060×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Bone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-19· cited 2,687×
• Mallett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-12-19· cited 1,369×
• Rhoades v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 959×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-01-30· cited 850×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-03-31· cited 568×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-20· cited 561×
• Hai Hai Vuong v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-08· cited 352×
• Kutzner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-10· cited 255×
• Ex Parte Franklin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-10· cited 124×