Cain 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 a defendant's signature on conviction records was insufficient to establish that the defendant was the identical person previously convicted
• “[W]here handwriting samples are introduced without expert testimony and the jury alone must make the comparison, and there is no other evidence to connect the appellant with the prior convictions, such identity has not been sufficiently established.”
• an opinion by Judge Roberts
• an opinion by Judge Roberts

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Beck v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-05· cited 339×
• Littles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-11· cited 204×
• Bradley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-05· cited 116×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-05· cited 107×
• Garner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-01-26· cited 97×
• Barrientez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-24· cited 94×
• Daniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-21· cited 86×
• Bullard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-03-03· cited 80×
• Bradley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-26· cited 75×
• Charles Edwin Bullard v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-01-20· cited 74×
• Prihoda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-09-29· cited 70×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-16· cited 64×
• Rios v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-10-19· cited 53×
• ORSAG v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-06-10· cited 49×
• Stephenson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-31· cited 47×
• Elizalde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-10· cited 46×
• Gollin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-29· cited 44×
• Davison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-12· cited 41×
• Rosales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1993-11-17· cited 41×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-08· cited 41×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gilbert v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 3,797×
• Brumfield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-03-19· cited 200×
• Vessels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-07-24· cited 99×
• Bridges v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-05-26· cited 22×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-05-26· cited 6×