Blake 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 performance of counsel must be evaluated in light of what was known to counsel at time of trial and not in hindsight
• holding that a person is not an accomplice merely because he knows about the crime and fails to disclose it, or even tries to conceal the crime
• observing that rule reflects legislative determination to view accomplice testimony with caution because accomplices often have incentives to lie to avoid punishment or shift blame
• noting that Court has “repeatedly stated” that person is an accomplice “if he or she could be prosecuted for the same offense as the defendant, or a lesser included offense”
• acknowledging that it has been within the province of the jury to assess the credibility of accomplice witness testimony for more than one hundred years
• observing that rule reflects legislative determination to view accomplice testimony with caution because accomplices often have incentives to lie to avoid punishment or shift blame

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Paredes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-01-14· cited 582×
• Medina v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 579×
• Herron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-09· cited 482×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-02-02· cited 347×
• Cocke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-09-20· cited 268×
• Allen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-03-25· cited 148×
• Zamora, Jaime Arturo
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-23· cited 118×
• Hidalgo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-01-13· cited 113×
• Wachtendorf, John Allen Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-11-18· cited 108×
• Frank v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-22· cited 102×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-01-26· cited 92×
• Yost v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-04-24· cited 89×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-07-19· cited 77×
• Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-01-24· cited 76×
• Phillips, Christopher Allen
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-03· cited 59×
• Long v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-01-07· cited 57×
• Wincott v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-06-07· cited 55×
• Rogelio Delacerda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-21· cited 55×
• Phillips v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-02-27· cited 53×
• Patterson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-10-26· cited 50×

Cites

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

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Washington v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,395×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• United States v. David Dominic Necoechea
  Ninth Circuit· 1993-04-15· cited 460×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-22· cited 336×
• DeBlanc v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 288×
• Gamez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 257×
• Crank v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-14· cited 254×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-19· cited 254×
• People v. DeSantis
  California Supreme Court· 1992-07-13· cited 237×
• Kunkle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-18· cited 227×
• Solis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-27· cited 221×
• Paulus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-26· cited 201×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-03-12· cited 185×
• Benson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1892-12-05· cited 171×
• Ex Parte Zepeda
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 156×
• McCloud v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-23· cited 148×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 144×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-09· cited 127×
• Easter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-04-28· cited 125×

Other cases named Blake v. State

127 other CourtListener records share this case name; the 50 most cited are listed.

• Blake v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-11· cited 110×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-06-28· cited 88×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2006-10-24· cited 82×
• Blake v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2005-10-20· cited 81×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2007-12-13· cited 77×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1956-07-11· cited 45×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1964-04-15· cited 40×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-03-13· cited 34×
• Blake v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1997-02-25· cited 29×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2013-03-04· cited 24×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2002-02-20· cited 23×
• Blake v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1975-02-18· cited 23×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1932-07-04· cited 22×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-05-12· cited 21×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-02-16· cited 20×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2005-02-23· cited 20×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-06-23· cited 19×
• Blake v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2006-10-19· cited 19×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-10-06· cited 18×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-05-26· cited 16×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-07-22· cited 16×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-04-29· cited 15×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2011-03-22· cited 14×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1988-11-23· cited 13×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1962-09-26· cited 13×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-06-17· cited 13×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2005-03-23· cited 12×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1968-02-05· cited 12×
• Blake v. State
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1999-03-11· cited 12×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1988-10-21· cited 11×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1964-03-31· cited 10×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1972-07-06· cited 10×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1967-12-05· cited 8×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1975-11-28· cited 8×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2018-12-10· cited 8×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2023-08-28· cited 8×
• Blake v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-01-24· cited 7×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-11-19· cited 7×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1959-05-29· cited 7×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1963-09-27· cited 7×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1901-01-24· cited 7×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-01-26· cited 7×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1979-10-16· cited 6×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Appeals of Mississippi· 2002-09-03· cited 6×
• Blake v. State
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1975-07-17· cited 6×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-06-24· cited 6×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1975-07-31· cited 6×
• Blake v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1977-10-17· cited 6×
• Blake v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-05-14· cited 5×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2010-10-01· cited 5×