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.

• concluding that the trial court’s refusal to allow effective cross-examination of a State’s witness to establish her bias or motive in testifying against the defendant violated the defendant’s right to confrontation
• holding that the trial court unconstitutionally restricted a defense attorney’s attempted cross-examination of a material witness about whether she had been charged with murder in connection with the offense at bar
• error to deny questioning witness about juvenile proceedings arising out of same offense for which defendant on trial where prosecution had intervened to delay adjudication of juvenile cause
• trial court's refusal to allow effective cross-examination of a State's witness to establish her bias or motive in testifying against the defendant violated the defendant's right to confrontation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Carroll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-24· cited 415×
• Carpenter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-30· cited 161×
• Holmes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-15· cited 144×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-11· cited 134×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-16· cited 122×
• Koehler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-10-17· cited 114×
• Hurd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-25· cited 101×
• Carmona v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-10· cited 77×
• Marsh v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-06-10· cited 75×
• Mumphrey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-01-19· cited 60×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 59×
• Rodriquez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1996-11-20· cited 33×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-21· cited 28×
• Woodall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-02-22· cited 24×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-01· cited 23×
• Hilliard v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-08-24· cited 21×
• Harrison v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1984-11-29· cited 21×
• Buitureida v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1984-11-29· cited 18×
• Paley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-09-18· cited 15×
• Duncan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-08-23· cited 14×

Cites

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

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• United States v. Nixon
  Supreme Court· 1974-07-24· cited 4,095×
• Greene v. McElroy
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-29· cited 1,385×
• Alford v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-02-24· cited 1,352×
• Smith v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-01-29· cited 763×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Marini v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-02-06· cited 175×
• Passmore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-27· cited 165×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-10· cited 135×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-09· cited 106×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-26· cited 99×
• Mutscher v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-24· cited 98×
• Burkhalter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-02-21· cited 86×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-07-22· cited 75×
• Bilbrey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-23· cited 72×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-26· cited 71×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-07-12· cited 70×
• Jesse Luna v. Dr. George J. Beto, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1968-05-07· cited 64×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-20· cited 58×