Coble v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that prosecutor’s calling the defense’s argument “ridiculous” during closing was an attack on the defense attorney’s argument rather than on the defense attorney as a person and holding that argument was proper
• reaching similar conclusion concerning prosecutor’s statement that “when you have neither [the facts nor the law] on your side, you argue something ridiculous”
• reaching similar conclusion concerning prosecutor’s statement that “when you have neither [the facts nor the law] on your side, you argue something ridiculous”
• finding evidence did not raise self-defense because appellant initiated the encounter, and “it was [the victim] who was acting in self-defense”
• finding no error in not submitting jury instructions on self-defense when the evidence at trial established from the outset that the appellant intended to kill the victim and no counter-evidence was presented
• finding prosecutor = s statement that defense counsel argued something A ridiculous @ was proper because it was directed at defense counsel = s argument, not at defense counsel

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Cited by

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

• Dewberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-20· cited 2,718×
• Motilla v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-26· cited 1,558×
• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Coble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-10-13· cited 848×
• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Prystash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 668×
• Huizar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-02-23· cited 526×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 452×
• Skinner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-05-21· cited 330×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-21· cited 296×
• Norman Evans Green v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-11-11· cited 188×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-26· cited 177×
• Wheatfall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-29· cited 175×
• Shanklin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-12-29· cited 143×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Rudd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1996-04-23· cited 94×
• Edwards v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-01-09· cited 84×
• Todd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-11-09· cited 82×
• Robertson v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-03-14· cited 67×
• DeLarue v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-03-27· cited 66×

Cites

65 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 1,170×
• Narvaiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 944×
• Alejandro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-11· cited 877×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-03· cited 840×
• Felder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-16· cited 557×
• Madden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 557×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-14· cited 511×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 484×
• Todd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-07· cited 378×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-19· cited 373×
• Nethery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-22· cited 365×
• Hai Hai Vuong v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-08· cited 352×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 297×
• DeBlanc v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 288×
• McIntire v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-30· cited 280×
• Kinnamon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-18· cited 274×
• Ex Parte McWilliams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-12· cited 259×
• Marquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-01-14· cited 246×