Harris v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial court did not err by admitting autopsy photograph of child’s deflected scalp to show skull fractures that caused the child’s death.
• concluding trial court did not err by admitting photograph of decedent’s skull with skin refracted because it was necessary to show a skull fracture
• holding autopsy photograph that helped illustrate and clarify a medical examiner = s testimony was admissible
• explaining that because reflecting the skin from a victim's skull did not \obfuscate the results of the crime\ but allowed the jury to see the injury, there was no error in admitting the photograph
• explaining that because refracting the skin from a victim's skull did not \obfuscate the results of the crime\ but allowed the jury to see the injury, there was no error in admitting the photograph
• admitting photographs that help jury understand doctor’s technical language used to describe the victim’s injuries is not abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Madden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 557×
• Burdine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-15· cited 284×
• Goodwin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 159×
• Frank v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-22· cited 102×
• Todd v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-11-09· cited 82×
• Drew v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-06-26· cited 61×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 57×
• Jose Isaas Herrera AKA Jose Isaas Herrera, Sr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-17· cited 52×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-18· cited 43×
• Sandow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-04· cited 29×
• Ladner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1993-12-31· cited 26×
• Kaczmarek v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-01-06· cited 21×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2003-08-29· cited 15×
• Izaguirre v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1985-05-30· cited 13×
• Corral v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1995-06-08· cited 12×
• Shawn Mayreis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-03-24· cited 10×
• Bullard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-30· cited 10×
• Bryant v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1986-01-30· cited 9×
• Majid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-07-16· cited 9×
• Persons v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-08-27· cited 5×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brasfield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-18· cited 278×
• Martin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-01-26· cited 257×
• Bailey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-23· cited 116×
• Terry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-01-24· cited 92×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-11· cited 40×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-02-17· cited 32×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-03-28· cited 8×