Ford v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “Under our harmless error rule the violation of a mandatory statute does not, by itself, call for the reversal of a conviction.”
• “Under our harmless error rule the violation of a mandatory statute does not, by itself, call for the reversal of a conviction.”
• “[W]e presume that jurors are qualified absent some indication in the record to the contrary.”
• “Under our harmless error rule the violation of a mandatory statute does not, by itself, call for the reversal of a conviction.”
• “violation of a mandatory statute” rationale “would re-establish automatic reversible error, contrary to the language and purpose of Rule 44.2 and contrary to our opinion in Cain”
• error in application of statutory protection subject to harm analysis where protection does not fall within the very limited class of “structural” error immunized from harm analysis

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-05-19· cited 1,320×
• Menefee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-07-01· cited 321×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-02· cited 282×
• Aguirre-Mata v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-05-14· cited 212×
• Roethel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-08-08· cited 156×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-16· cited 96×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-05-23· cited 52×
• Damian Lamon Murkledove v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-05-15· cited 47×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-05-05· cited 46×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2010-08-12· cited 41×
• Byrd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-14· cited 39×
• Paredes v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-07-06· cited 36×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-04-17· cited 34×
• Baggett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-04-28· cited 26×
• Luna v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2009-08-26· cited 25×
• Cornell Smith Jr v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-12-19· cited 20×
• Oprean v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-08-22· cited 18×
• Tracy Blaine Francis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-04-18· cited 17×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-06-29· cited 16×
• Tasby v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2003-05-15· cited 12×

Cites

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

• Kotteakos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-10· cited 7,845×
• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 2,567×
• Ladd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 1,900×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-04-15· cited 1,896×
• Boykin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 1,829×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-06-18· cited 1,033×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-03-28· cited 589×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-16· cited 452×
• Schutz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-12-19· cited 231×
• Ex Parte Taylor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-02-28· cited 211×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-10· cited 196×
• Ex Parte Graves
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-01-02· cited 193×
• Llamas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-02-16· cited 168×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 147×
• Ex Parte McCain
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-01-09· cited 125×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-24· cited 47×
• Yanez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-26· cited 44×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 37×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-11-21· cited 35×