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.

• “Though flight of an accused is not ground for presuming guilt, it is still a circumstance from which an inference of guilt may be drawn.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Scamardo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-30· cited 330×
• LaPoint v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-04· cited 136×
• Moss v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-15· cited 109×
• Pickering v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-06· cited 30×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-03-13· cited 9×
• Carlos Gonzalez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2001-08-16
• Acosta, Steve
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-12
• Acosta, Steve
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-09-14
• Carranza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-09-19
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-24
• William Garcia v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2026-05-28

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cawley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-11-20· cited 117×
• Ysasaga v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-05-28· cited 105×
• Shelby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-08· cited 41×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-03-31· cited 26×
• Briones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-01-09· cited 23×
• Hines v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-09-23· cited 21×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-04-22· cited 21×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1964-01-22· cited 19×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-02-16· cited 17×
• Leaderbrand v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-09-04· cited 15×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-11-13· cited 15×
• Bonner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1964-01-08· cited 14×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-01-08· cited 14×
• Gibson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-12-11· cited 11×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1942-11-11· cited 8×