Jordan 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 record contained no evidence to support prosecutor’s argument telling jurors to “look at the needle tracks on [appellants’ arms]”
• stating that the record did not contain evidence to support the prosecutor’s argument imploring jurors to “look at the needle tracks on [appellant’s arms]”
• disallowing argument asking jury to speculate about other crimes defendant may have committed
• both holding that counsel cannot use closing argument to place evidence before the jury that is outside the record
• both holding that counsel cannot use closing argument to place evidence before the jury that is outside the record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gaddis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-25· cited 445×
• Borjan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-21· cited 409×
• Kunkle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-18· cited 227×
• Good v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-26· cited 139×
• Dickinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 138×
• Moreno v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-08-31· cited 102×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 80×
• Milton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-04-03· cited 76×
• Andujo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-07-13· cited 71×
• Romeo Hinojosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-05-07· cited 41×
• Fant-Caughman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2001-06-15· cited 33×
• Pimentel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1986-05-21· cited 28×
• Spelling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-23· cited 20×
• Juan Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-08-29· cited 20×
• Geuder v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-03-28· cited 19×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1984-12-27· cited 17×
• Dorsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-07· cited 17×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1986-01-29· cited 16×
• Sawyer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-09· cited 8×
• Baldwin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1985-08-30· cited 7×