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 three-year- old witness was competent because she stated that she would get a ‘spanking’ if she did not tell the truth
• concluding that three-year-old child’s testimony demonstrated she understood the incident well enough to describe it even if she did not use sophisticated language and had difficulty answering questions pertaining to collateral matters
• noting that although the witness had difficulty answering many questions on collateral matters, her testimony about the alleged sexual offense was clear

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Ozuna v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-08-10· cited 91×
• Mitchell Lowery v. James Collins, Director Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1993-04-07· cited 69×
• Ricardo Torres v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-02-20· cited 66×
• Heckathorne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-13· cited 47×
• Coachman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1985-06-13· cited 15×
• Romines v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-24· cited 15×
• Rhea v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-19· cited 12×
• John Dickerson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-08-30
• Clarence Alan Barfield A/K/A Clarence Alan Coats v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-07-29
• Felipe Castrejon, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-08-22
• Eloy Ozuna v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-08-10
• Larry Lee Wagner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-03-31
• Jacoy Nixon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-08-18
• Nixon, Jacoy
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-09-22

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Fields v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-24· cited 69×
• Melton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-07-09· cited 15×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-04-16· cited 11×