Hester 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 erroneously admitted evidence is harmless when properly admitted evidence supporting the guilty verdict is “overwhelming”
• holding search warrant invalid because it “fail[ed] to describe in any detail precisely what items were taken in the robberies”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Campos v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2008-04-30· cited 131×
• Overstreet v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2003-02-24· cited 125×
• Hopkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-12-03· cited 71×
• Goodner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1997-09-24· cited 48×
• Luster v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-09-24· cited 31×
• Davis v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2009-06-11· cited 28×
• Everroad v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-04-15· cited 28×
• Haley v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1998-07-02· cited 23×
• Justice v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-03-19· cited 22×
• King v. King
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-03-04· cited 19×
• Warren v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2002-01-10· cited 18×
• Justice v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2002-05-08· cited 12×
• State v. Figgures
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2005-12-28· cited 9×
• Terry v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-11-05· cited 7×
• Thompson v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1993-05-18· cited 6×
• Zavesky v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1990-09-04· cited 5×
• State v. Kitt
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-09-10· cited 1×
• Malcom Goodner v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1998-09-24
• Norman Thomas, II v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2025-05-05
• Michael Carr v. State of Indiana
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2026-02-24

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×
• United States v. Leon
  Supreme Court· 1984-09-18· cited 9,230×
• Coolidge v. New Hampshire
  Supreme Court· 1971-06-21· cited 9,038×
• Johnson v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-01-11· cited 106×
• United States v. Josephine Cordero, Etc., United States of America v. William Sorren, A/K/A Bill
  First Circuit· 1982-01-15· cited 85×
• Ingram v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-12-14· cited 78×
• Candler v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-06-24· cited 70×
• Sayre v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1984-12-05· cited 64×
• Rabadi v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-07-21· cited 62×
• United States v. Charles E. Griffin and Jerome Griffin
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-04-13· cited 54×
• Blalock v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1985-10-03· cited 46×
• Freeman v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1989-07-31· cited 42×
• United States v. Ronald Dwight Posey
  Seventh Circuit· 1981-11-17· cited 35×
• Wade v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-04-03· cited 35×
• Daniel v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-08-15· cited 33×
• Kail v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1988-09-21· cited 29×
• Ortez v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1975-09-16· cited 25×
• Avant v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-09-14· cited 24×
• Cheeks v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1977-04-19· cited 22×
• Murphy v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1986-11-12· cited 19×