Burns 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 accomplice witness charge error requires reversal and remand for new trial
• stating that a person who has been indicted for the same offense is an accomplice witness as a matter of law
• stating that a person who has been indicted for the same offense is an accomplice witness as a matter of law
• “This has been interpreted to require only that some harm have resulted to appellants because of the erroneous charge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Herron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-09· cited 482×
• Saunders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-25· cited 431×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-24· cited 372×
• Ex Parte Martinez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-01-12· cited 315×
• Kunkle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-18· cited 227×
• Casanova, Matthew John
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-11-21· cited 112×
• Sierra v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-01-20· cited 105×
• Elizondo, Jose Guadalupe Rodriguez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-06· cited 97×
• Watkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2011-04-13· cited 78×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-05-25· cited 45×
• Jason Alexander Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-05-29· cited 45×
• Ash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-28· cited 35×
• Mashburn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-09-11· cited 30×
• Skidmore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-13· cited 24×
• Ashford v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-06-25· cited 16×
• Gipson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-09-18· cited 15×
• Saunders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1990-07-18· cited 12×
• De La Rosa v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-13· cited 12×
• Bingham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-20· cited 11×
• Riggs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-20· cited 10×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• McCloud v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-23· cited 148×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-09· cited 127×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-22· cited 81×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-04-23· cited 53×
• Hendricks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-24· cited 34×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-03-31· cited 14×