Lopez 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 even prior false accusations of abuse do not “tend to prove or disprove any of the elements of rape”
• holding that complainant's prior accusation of physical abuse by mother and current allegation of sexual abuse by defendant did not have requisite similarity
• holding that complainant’s prior accusation of physical abuse by mother and current allegation of sexual abuse by defendant did not have requisite similarity
• holding that the defendant was not entitled to cross-examine the complainant in an aggravated sexual assault case where evidence of the complainant’s accusations of physical abuse against his mother were not shown to be false
• holding that the defendant was not entitled to cross-examine the complainant in an aggravated sexual assault case where evidence of the complainant's accusations of physical abuse against his mother were not shown to be false
• holding that evidentiary rule barring cross-examination of a witness about specific conduct for the purpose of attacking the witness’s credibility excludes cross-examination about prior false accusations unless the probative value of the evidence outweighs the risks of juror confusion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Reyna v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-06-29· cited 776×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-05-09· cited 705×
• Hammer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-08· cited 593×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-05-25· cited 321×
• Billodeau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-02-11· cited 214×
• Ex Parte Taylor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-02-28· cited 211×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-02· cited 180×
• Roger Boggs v. Terry Collins, Warden
  Sixth Circuit· 2000-09-18· cited 137×
• State v. Wyrick
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2001-05-04· cited 110×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2009-10-01· cited 83×
• Delamora v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2004-02-05· cited 78×
• Wilder v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-06-26· cited 73×
• Moore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2004-07-21· cited 72×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-01-10· cited 70×
• Puderbaugh v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2000-11-08· cited 64×
• Pierson, Leonard Jr.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-09· cited 64×
• State v. Guenther
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2004-08-09· cited 63×
• Drew v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-06-26· cited 61×
• Hiatt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2010-09-15· cited 53×
• Timothy Garrett Linney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-05-07· cited 53×

Cites

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

• Delaware v. Van Arsdall
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-07· cited 7,102×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Delaware v. Fensterer
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 1,786×
• Lagrone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-05· cited 911×
• Vernon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-11-04· cited 493×
• Carroll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-24· cited 415×
• Boutwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-04-24· cited 223×
• Commonwealth v. Bohannon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1978-07-25· cited 176×
• State v. Boggs
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1992-04-15· cited 165×
• Hoyos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-11-18· cited 162×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1989-03-16· cited 146×
• Clinebell v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1988-04-22· cited 143×
• Hodge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-28· cited 143×
• People v. Mandel
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-12-17· cited 121×
• Miller v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1989-09-06· cited 100×
• People v. Evans
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1888-11-01· cited 100×
• Covington v. State
  Court of Appeals of Alaska· 1985-07-26· cited 96×
• State v. Anderson
  Montana Supreme Court· 1984-07-16· cited 95×
• State v. Cox
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-12-22· cited 89×
• Little v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-12-15· cited 80×