Bishop v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining evidence of defendant’s sexual proclivities and practices qualified as “other acts” under Rule 404(b)
• relying on ―federal case law dealing with an identical provision in the Federal Rules of Evidence,‖ and noting that the court‘s research ―turned up no Texas cases in which Rule 406 was significantly discussed‖
• acts testified to by ex-wife were not so unusual and distinctive and so nearly identical to the charged offense as to amount to a signature of the defendant
• using the terms identity, signature, and handiwork synonymously

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lane v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 583×
• Wheeler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-01-30· cited 576×
• Pondexter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-16· cited 349×
• Johnston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-09-15· cited 247×
• Page v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-12-20· cited 201×
• Hall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-03-08· cited 177×
• Cofield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-10-26· cited 172×
• Swarb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-04· cited 145×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-10-16· cited 107×
• Avila v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2000-03-08· cited 99×
• Dossett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2007-02-28· cited 94×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-03-11· cited 83×
• Booker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-20· cited 82×
• Reyes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-03-14· cited 75×
• Prince v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-05-11· cited 71×
• Jabari v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-11-20· cited 70×
• Edward George McGregor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-08-09· cited 69×
• Clinton Ray Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-01-30· cited 45×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2009-03-26· cited 44×
• Blakeney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-11-15· cited 43×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 7,264×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 1,170×
• Plante v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-19· cited 274×
• Owens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 215×
• Arcila v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 182×
• Beets v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 143×
• Collazo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-09-30· cited 92×
• Crawley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-07-24· cited 58×
• Messenger v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-09-22· cited 43×
• Hatley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-18· cited 38×
• Bishop v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1992-09-16· cited 14×