Elam 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 questions designed to elicit a witness’s background information are proper, but noting that the criminal-history question in Tweedle was improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rubio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-24· cited 161×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 133×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-11-03· cited 87×
• Ortiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-21· cited 52×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-19· cited 48×
• Cravens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-03-27· cited 45×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-11· cited 40×
• Kennard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-07-20· cited 31×
• Crowl v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-02· cited 30×
• Livingston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-01-28· cited 24×
• Trussell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-27· cited 16×
• Wooten v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-21· cited 3×
• Timothy Craig Alley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-02-24
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-26

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 203×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-12-06· cited 26×
• McElroy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-04-29· cited 26×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-19· cited 18×
• Prudhomme v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-06-13· cited 14×
• Winkle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-12-13· cited 13×
• Tweedle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1949-01-05· cited 12×
• Hasley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1920-06-02· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-10-26· cited 7×