Bird 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 prosecutor’s comment in that case would “naturally and necessarily” be taken as a comment on defendant’s failure to testify
• in a murder trial and in reference to a firearm with a silencer, the prosecutor turned to the defendant and asked, “ ‘[W]here did you get it?’ ”
• harmful error for prosecutor to direct question to defendant during jury argument

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bustamante v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-13· cited 419×
• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• McKay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-02· cited 356×
• Bower v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-01-25· cited 311×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• Archie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-06-08· cited 233×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-08· cited 228×
• Annis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-21· cited 192×
• Bird v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-01· cited 176×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 143×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 133×
• Bouchillon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-06-30· cited 114×
• State v. Pierce
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1989-04-27· cited 96×
• Barnum v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2000-01-20· cited 81×
• Nickens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-30· cited 66×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-10· cited 65×
• Angel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-10· cited 63×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-14· cited 61×
• Short v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-13· cited 60×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-20· cited 56×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Ramos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-10-18· cited 159×
• Koller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-05· cited 132×
• Fontaine v. California
  Supreme Court· 1968-05-20· cited 91×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-07-16· cited 90×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-07-09· cited 59×
• Overstreet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-09-16· cited 56×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-03· cited 49×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-18· cited 32×
• Armstrong v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-05· cited 23×
• Chapman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-30· cited 12×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-08· cited 8×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-01-11· cited 6×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1961-12-13· cited 6×
• Griggs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1958-03-19· cited 4×