Clark 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, when a potential juror genuinely equivocates or vacillates, the trial court may discretionarily dismiss or not “depending on demeanor, intonation, or expression”
• explaining that trial court’s discretion “comes fully into play” when “[a] venireman . . . genuinely equivocates or vacillates in his answer” based on “demeanor, intonation, or expression”
• a prospective juror who maintains she will consciously distort her answers must be excused on challenge for cause
• a prospective juror who maintains she will consciously distort her answers must be excused on challenge for cause
• a prospective juror who maintains she will consciously distort her answers must be excused on challenge for cause

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Feldman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-02-20· cited 654×
• Mathis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-02-13· cited 423×
• Granados v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-08· cited 418×
• Rayford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-11-19· cited 305×
• State v. Kleypas
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2001-12-28· cited 144×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-05-06· cited 142×
• Tucker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-29· cited 94×
• Yzaguirre, Jay Paul
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-27· cited 69×
• State v. Gutierrez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-10-18· cited 52×
• Degrate v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-08-28· cited 23×
• Knapp v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1997-03-19· cited 16×
• Matter of JF, Jr.
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1997-05-15· cited 14×
• Jay Paul Yzaguirre v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2012-05-23· cited 4×
• John Willie Tucker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2005-12-29
• Gregory DeGrate v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-08-28
• Ricardo Cordova v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2000-05-18
• Smith, Demetrius Dewayne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-05-06
• Escobar, Areli Carbajal
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-11-20
• Leslie Kay Klemansky v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2011-05-18
• Thomas, Kenneth Dewayne
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-09-27