Garcia v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that sound trial strategy may consist of failing to request a limiting instruction in order to avoid bringing more attention to the evidence in question
• recognizing that sound trial strategy may consist of failing to request a limiting instruction in order to avoid bringing more attention to the evidence in question
• holding that trial counsel’s failure to request a limiting instruction did not constitute ineffective assistance because counsel did not want to draw more attention to the incriminating evidence
• holding that a decision not to request a limiting instruction was a matter of trial strategy because it may \draw more attention to incriminating evidence\
• holding that once evidence is received without limiting instruction, it becomes part of general evidence and may be used for all purposes
• holding that no error was preserved when appellant did not object to the State’s alleged comment during closing argument on appellant’s failure to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wesbrook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 2,816×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 954×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-12-15· cited 763×
• Prystash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 668×
• Lawton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-17· cited 507×
• Hammock v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-05-23· cited 473×
• Vodochodsky v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-16· cited 433×
• Ex Parte Varelas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-05-23· cited 262×
• Beheler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-16· cited 212×
• Cano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-08-31· cited 136×
• Saldivar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1998-12-10· cited 131×
• Parmer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-03-21· cited 119×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Moreno v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-08-31· cited 102×
• Gutierrez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-01-31· cited 101×
• Moreno Denoso v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-02-03· cited 87×
• Turro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-07-03· cited 83×
• Thacker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-07-15· cited 72×
• Bohannan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-11-22· cited 71×
• Arnold v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-06-14· cited 65×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 7,264×
• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 3,060×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 1,003×
• Narvaiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 944×
• Lankston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 897×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-03· cited 840×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-13· cited 621×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 615×
• Kemp v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-16· cited 543×
• 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×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-29· cited 371×