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Hopkins v. State

Citations

  • 480 S.W.2d 212
  • 1972 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 2062

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that opinion testimony in regard to the ultimate fact issue is required to prove intoxication
  • trial court correctly precluded the expert from testifying about the “competency” and “credibility” of a State witness because expert testimony is not admissible for impeachment purposes
  • psychiatric evidence not admissible regarding credibility of witness
  • repudiating the “invasion of the province of the jury” rule
  • psychiatric testimony not permissible for impeachment purposes
  • psychiatric testimony not permissible for impeachment purposes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Roberts, Morrison

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

Cites

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