Johnson 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 defendant is not entitled to “cross-examination that is effective in whatever way, and to whatever extent,” he might wish
• stating defendant, as proponent of 31 evidence, must establish causal connection or logical relationship between excluded evidence and witness’ alleged bias or motive
• stating “the proffered evidence need not definitively prove the bias alleged—it need only ‘make the existence’ of bias ‘more probable or less probable than it would be without the evidence’”
• “[I]t is not within a trial court’s discretion to prohibit a defendant from engaging in otherwise appropriate cross-examination designed to show a prototypical form of bias on the part of the witness.” (internal quotations omitted)
• “Rather, ‘[t]he main and essential purpose of confrontation is to secure for the opponent the opportunity of cross- examination[,]’ because that is ‘the principal means by which the believability of a witness and the truth of his testimony are tested.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-25· cited 321×
• Balderas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-02· cited 297×
• Jacobs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-10-10· cited 34×
• Ette v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-05-18· cited 23×
• Beltran v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-03-08· cited 11×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-03-27· cited 11×
• Anthony G. Hereford, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-09-08· cited 5×
• Dedric D'Shawn Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2017-08-01· cited 4×
• Quincy Deshan Butler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2015-01-13
• Marcia Jacqueline Dinanno v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2015-02-26
• Patricia Ann Adams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-09-18
• Latray M. Whitley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-07-23
• David Michael Dollins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-01-08
• Butler, Quincy Deshan
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-20
• Ricky Neal Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2015-03-26
• Ricky Neal Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2015-05-08
• Roderick Beham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-05-15
• Torres, Aaron Anthony
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-11-03
• Anderson, Brandon
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-12-01
• David Garcia Reyes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-20

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Crane v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-09· cited 2,651×
• Delaware v. Fensterer
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 1,786×
• Hammer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-08· cited 593×
• Potier v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-02-13· cited 554×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-24· cited 415×
• United States v. Wesley Willie
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-08-12· cited 167×
• Carpenter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-30· cited 161×
• Irby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-16· cited 141×
• Hurd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-25· cited 101×
• United States v. Landerman
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-03-31· cited 64×
• Spain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-06· cited 47×