Brown 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 the PSI statute authorizes the trial court to consider information in the PSI that is hearsay
• holding that the statute governing presentencing reports authorizes the trial court to consider information in the presentencing report that is hearsay
• holding that PSI reports could contain hearsay
• holding that PSI reports could contain hearsay
• holding that PSI reports could contain hearsay
• \To suggest that the judge should not use the information in the probation report because it contains `hearsay statements' is to deny the obvious purpose of the statute.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-11-21· cited 725×
• McNew v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-02-15· cited 264×
• Nunez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 174×
• Ex Parte Williams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-02-19· cited 144×
• Fryer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-01-30· cited 124×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-06· cited 109×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-27· cited 104×
• Clay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-05· cited 69×
• Tamminen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-07-20· cited 69×
• Shields v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-17· cited 63×
• Espinosa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-11· cited 55×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-02-20· cited 37×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-25· cited 30×
• State v. Hart
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-14· cited 30×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-05-02· cited 27×
• DuBose v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1998-11-04· cited 19×
• Bell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-01-13· cited 19×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1986-07-28· cited 17×
• In re M.P.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2007-02-07· cited 17×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-05-01· cited 16×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-02-16· cited 85×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-03-25· cited 55×
• McNeese v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-06-02· cited 11×
• Trautschold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-05-12· cited 7×