Martinez v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that a child’s outcry statement regarding an offense is “substantive evidence of the crime”
• holding that, while hearsay statements are generally inadmissible, they may be admitted “when public policy supports their use, and the circumstances surrounding the making of those statements pedigree their reliability”
• stating that outcry statute serves society's interest in \protecting children in court by allowing the admission of their casual 'street corner' confidences to an adult\
• noting that hearsay exception for outcry \carefully limited\ and applicable only when \specified conditions\ are met
• stating that outcry statute serves society’s interest in “protecting children in court by allowing the admission of their casual ‘street corner’ confidences to an adult”
• noting that hearsay exception for outcry \carefully limited” and applicable only when \specified conditions” are met

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-10-29· cited 801×
• Woodall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-03-02· cited 186×
• Felix Sandoval v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-09-13· cited 166×
• Gonzalez Soto v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2008-09-25· cited 153×
• Bays, Michael Jay
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-04-17· cited 88×
• Joey Dwayne Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-01-23· cited 77×
• Rangel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-07-25· cited 57×
• In re J.G.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-02-01· cited 47×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2009-12-23· cited 37×
• White, Brian Jason
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-06-13· cited 33×
• Mickey Charles Robinett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2012-10-12· cited 27×
• Carmell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-30· cited 21×
• Escamilla v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-03-02· cited 17×
• Javier Noel Campos v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-01-16· cited 14×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-03-22· cited 13×
• Carlos Mireles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-03-27· cited 10×
• Gary Lee Avant v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2016-07-13· cited 9×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-06-07· cited 8×
• Hankey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-05-24· cited 6×
• Newton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2009-01-14· cited 6×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Zuliani v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-05· cited 1,844×
• Lankston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 897×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-20· cited 563×
• Carmell v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 2000-05-01· cited 525×
• Volkswagen of America, Inc. v. Ramirez
  Texas Supreme Court· 2004-12-31· cited 467×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 288×
• Heckathorne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-13· cited 47×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-06· cited 31×
• Nemecek v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-17· cited 24×
• Grogan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1986-05-30· cited 17×