Holladay v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that when provisions of article 38.14 and its precursors were implicated, instruction was held sufficient if it: (1) defined term accomplice; (2) gave statutory prohibition against conviction on uncorroborated accomplice testimony; (3
• “Because such a witness [i e., an accomplice] is usually deemed to be corrupt, his testimony is always looked upon with suspicion.”
• Accomplice witness's testimony must be both material and corroborated by independent evidence tending to connect the accused with the offense.
• where state relies on an accomplice witness’s testimony, it must be corroborated by independent evidence connecting the accused to the offense
• witness was accomplice because he had been charged with committing same offense as appellant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 1,170×
• Druery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-04· cited 719×
• Carmell v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-01· cited 525×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Losada v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-29· cited 505×
• Gribble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-20· cited 251×
• Kunkle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-18· cited 227×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-29· cited 211×
• Gosch v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-18· cited 190×
• Farris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 160×
• Ex Parte Granger
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-10· cited 140×
• Ambrose, Cynthia
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-04-27· cited 105×
• May v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-18· cited 90×
• Amos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-30· cited 83×
• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-12· cited 70×
• Clarke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-19· cited 63×
• Horton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-01-13· cited 48×
• Romero v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 45×
• Hines v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1998-07-02· cited 41×
• C.M.G., Matter Of
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-08-16· cited 33×

Cites

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

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-03-27· cited 214×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-18· cited 202×
• Paulus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-26· cited 201×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 144×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-02-09· cited 127×
• Easter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-04-28· cited 125×
• McClain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-04-03· cited 118×
• Kerns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-03· cited 108×
• Warren v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-09· cited 106×
• Singletary v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-22· cited 99×
• Eckert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-21· cited 93×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-12-04· cited 79×
• Granger v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 61×
• Duff-Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-16· cited 60×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 59×
• Castaneda v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-26· cited 39×
• Fortenberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-21· cited 38×
• Hendricks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-24· cited 34×