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.

• upholding voluntariness determination in case in which defendant was mildly mentally retarded and “lacked the capacity to read and understand certain statements”
• defendant was mildly 20 mentally retarded and lacked capacity to read a11d understand certain statements
• defendant was mildly 20 mentally retarded and lacked capacity to read and understand certain statements
• mildly retarded person who participated in a special education program was not incapable of waiving rights and making confession
• mildly retarded person who participated in a special education program was not incapable of waiving rights and making confession
• defendant was mildly mentally retarded and lacked capacity to read and understand certain statements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 804×
• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Oursbourn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-04· cited 626×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 615×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-20· cited 561×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-19· cited 373×
• Esquivel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-09· cited 256×
• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-19· cited 197×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Franks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-24· cited 191×
• Denison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-05-04· cited 191×
• Combs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-12-08· cited 155×
• Harner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-06-23· cited 147×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-11-03· cited 145×
• Beets v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 143×
• Roy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-12· cited 126×
• Faulder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-30· cited 119×
• Mendoza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-23· cited 115×
• Eckert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-21· cited 93×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-08· cited 90×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Schmerber v. California
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 6,067×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Rochin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-02· cited 3,286×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Rideau v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1963-06-03· cited 1,211×
• Breithaupt v. Abram
  Supreme Court· 1957-02-25· cited 760×
• United States v. Haldeman
  D.C. Circuit· 1976-10-12· cited 661×
• Beck v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 596×
• Texas v. White
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-01· cited 409×
• Irvine v. California
  Supreme Court· 1954-03-15· cited 357×
• The People v. Speck
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1968-11-22· cited 276×
• Granviel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-11-10· cited 244×