Garrett v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• highlighting the reason the prosecution could not comment on the defendant’s failure to call additional witnesses was because nothing in the record reflected the existence of other witnesses who could have testified on the defendant’s behalf
• highlighting the reason the prosecution could not comment on the defendant's failure to call additional witnesses was because nothing in the record reflected the existence of other witnesses who could have testified on the defendant's behalf
• explaining that \an implied or indirect allusion to the failure of the appellant to testify\ is not enough to support error unless the comment calls \for a denial of an assertion of fact. . . that only the appellant was in a position to offer\
• highlighting the reason the prosecution could not comment on the defendant’s failure to call additional witnesses was because nothing in the record reflected the existence of other witnesses who could have testified on the defendant’s behalf

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Borjan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-21· cited 409×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• Saylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-12-14· cited 165×
• Dickinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 138×
• Calderon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1997-05-08· cited 128×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-06· cited 106×
• Wagner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-01· cited 105×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-20· cited 56×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-10-11· cited 54×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-12· cited 53×
• Crocker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-01-23· cited 39×
• Lemon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-08-19· cited 38×
• Clarke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-31· cited 36×
• Monkhouse v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1993-08-31· cited 35×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-16· cited 34×
• Fant-Caughman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2001-06-15· cited 33×
• Chandler v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-09· cited 31×
• Hullaby v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-06· cited 30×
• Pringle v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-04-30· cited 30×
• Koffel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-04· cited 30×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Alejandro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-11· cited 877×
• McKenzie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 454×
• Todd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-07· cited 378×
• Ramos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-10-18· cited 159×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-17· cited 154×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 143×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 133×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-19· cited 112×
• Clemons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 105×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-22· cited 92×
• Nickens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-30· cited 66×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-20· cited 63×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-14· cited 61×
• Berryhill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-11-14· cited 58×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-03· cited 49×
• Dunbar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-18· cited 44×
• Antwine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-25· cited 39×