Davis 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 when court erroneously excluded evidence that should have been allowed under optional completeness, error was harmless because excluded evidence was irrelevant
• state may introduce at death penalty hearing evidence of the details of defendant's prior convictions to enable jury to understand range and severity of defendant's prior conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rousseau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-24· cited 1,521×
• Allridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-13· cited 612×
• Davis v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-10-21· cited 444×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-29· cited 371×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 244×
• Griffin Industries, Inc. v. Honorable Thirteenth Court of Appeals
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-11-15· cited 161×
• Briddle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 136×
• Dowden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 136×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-11· cited 134×
• Rougeau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 100×
• Layne v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1989-03-29· cited 99×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 73×
• Nance v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1991-04-11· cited 66×
• Lawson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-12-05· cited 65×
• Semaire v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-22· cited 61×
• Westley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-15· cited 32×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 31×
• Charles County v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-29· cited 29×
• Ex Parte Davis
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-12-01· cited 25×
• Tafero v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-11-24· cited 19×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Jurek v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-16· cited 238×
• Livingston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 133×
• Wilder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-31· cited 115×
• Blansett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-09-14· cited 112×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-16· cited 70×
• Felder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-26· cited 55×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-03· cited 32×
• Dickson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-02-10· cited 25×
• Ortegon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-10-21· cited 19×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1949-12-21· cited 12×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1935-01-16· cited 3×
• Potts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-17· cited 3×