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.

• noting that prosecutor's argument went beyond general urging for lengthy penalty and focused on fact that defendant previously received 20-year sentence for conviction but was paroled after only three years
• noting that prosecutor’s argument went beyond general urging for lengthy penalty and focused on fact that defendant previously received 20-year sentence for conviction but was paroled after only 5 three years
• \The evil to be avoided is the consideration by the jury of parole in assessing punishment.\
• “The evil to be avoided is the consideration by the jury of parole in assessing punishment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rose v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-15· cited 647×
• McKay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-02· cited 356×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-26· cited 152×
• Arnold v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-24· cited 139×
• Davila v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-09-18· cited 118×
• Buentello v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 66×
• Stephen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 64×
• Tollett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-21· cited 55×
• Byrd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-07-26· cited 28×
• Clay v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-11-12· cited 21×
• Zimmerman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1988-10-19· cited 18×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-04-21· cited 15×
• Olivarez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1988-08-17· cited 15×
• Reno v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-08-23· cited 12×
• Harding v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-06· cited 7×
• Bowman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-12-21· cited 4×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-12· cited 3×
• Blessing v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-07-18· cited 3×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-11· cited 2×

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Alejandro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-11· cited 877×
• Hodge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-28· cited 143×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 133×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-07-16· cited 94×
• Franklin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-24· cited 86×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-01-17· cited 68×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-25· cited 46×
• Clanton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-15· cited 43×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-03-20· cited 33×
• Woerner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-24· cited 29×
• Marshburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-26· cited 29×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-12-03· cited 21×
• Pringle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-19· cited 21×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-30· cited 18×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-05· cited 16×
• Hartman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-07-11· cited 11×
• Blount v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-29· cited 6×