Clayton v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The prosecutor’s argument that he would not prosecute a man he did not know in his heart to be guilty is improper.”
• “He couldn’t pay me enough to come down here and prosecute a man I didn’t know in my heart to be guilty.”
• “The prosecutor’s argument that he would not prosecute a man –6– he did not know in his heart to be guilty is improper.”
• specific objection preferred, but blanket objection will preserve error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-23· cited 223×
• Passmore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-27· cited 165×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-21· cited 154×
• Mendoza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-08· cited 146×
• Chapman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-09· cited 33×
• Murray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1993-12-15· cited 25×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-06-09· cited 25×
• Greer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-05-28· cited 19×
• Maupin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-12-18· cited 18×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-28· cited 17×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-07· cited 17×
• Garrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-15· cited 14×
• Buffington v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1990-10-31· cited 13×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-02-17· cited 12×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-19· cited 12×
• Zaiontz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1985-11-06· cited 12×
• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-06· cited 10×
• Brown v. Estelle
  N.D. Texas· 1978-07-07· cited 10×
• Elizondo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-19· cited 9×
• James Edward Clayton v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-10-29· cited 8×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-12-18· cited 50×
• Fowler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-31· cited 45×
• Moulder v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1972-11-30· cited 41×
• Baldwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-09-19· cited 38×
• Spinks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1952-10-22· cited 20×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1972-09-04· cited 13×
• Zepeda v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1961-11-15· cited 6×