Gorman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the prosecutor’s comment “[d]on’t let him smoke-screen you, he has smoke-screened you enough” was in response to defense counsel’s argument attempting to minimize the defendant’s prior criminal record
• explaining that the prosecutor’s comment “[d]on’t let him smoke-screen you, he has smoke-screened you enough” was in response to defense counsel’s argument attempting to minimize the defendant’s prior criminal record
• prosecutor’s remark that defense counsel was arguing “something ridiculous” was aimed at defense counsel’s argument rather than at defense counsel personally
• prosecutor’s comment “[d]on’t let him smoke-screen you, he has smoke-screened you enough” was in response to defense counsel’s argument attempting to minimize the defendant’s prior criminal record and not reversible error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Coble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-03· cited 206×
• Annis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-21· cited 192×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Knox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-12-06· cited 40×
• Karl Dean Stahmann v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2018-01-04· cited 31×
• Hargett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-03-24· cited 29×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-11-28· cited 28×
• Alvarez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-12· cited 19×
• Hunter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1982-05-26· cited 16×
• Beasley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-10· cited 16×
• Twomey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-26· cited 15×
• DeVonish v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-24· cited 13×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-02-06· cited 11×
• Henson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-03· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-10· cited 7×
• Fegurgur v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-06-17· cited 6×
• Ellison v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-10· cited 6×
• Manuel De Jesus Ovalle v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-07-06