Ellis v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• circumstantial evidence in capital murder trial was sufficient to prove that deceased did not give defendant, the apartment maintenance man who had a master key, consent to enter her apartment
• circumstantial evidence in capital murder trial was sufficient to prove that deceased did not give defendant, the apartment maintenance man who had a master key, consent to enter her apartment
• jury could have reasonably inferred from evidence presented at trial that the victim did not provide effective consent for him to enter her apartment and that his entry was instead “induced by fraud or force”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 954×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-10-21· cited 640×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-13· cited 507×
• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• DeBlanc v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 288×
• Whitsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-09-19· cited 278×
• West v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-08-21· cited 218×
• Goodwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 159×
• Demouchette v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-24· cited 156×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 147×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-20· cited 146×
• Callins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-27· cited 134×
• Jacobs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-11· cited 133×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-20· cited 111×
• Edward Anthony Ellis v. James A. Lynaugh, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-05-30· cited 87×
• Granviel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-07-02· cited 65×
• Felder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-14· cited 65×
• Gunter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 63×
• Edward Anthony Ellis v. James A. Collins, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-03-03· cited 39×
• Phelps v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1987-05-13· cited 16×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• McGoldrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-09· cited 433×
• Davis v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-12-06· cited 352×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 118×
• Kelly v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-04-25· cited 58×
• Prescott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-01-28· cited 40×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-12-03· cited 28×