Mathis 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 the trial court cannot prevent counsel from discussing the punishment range even where the trial court had previously told the jury it must consider the full punishment range
• holding the trial court abused its discretion by refusing to allow a question to prospective jurors on their feelings against recommending probation as punishment in a murder case
• “The right to be represented by counsel . . . encompasses the right of counsel to question the members of the jury panel in order to intelligently exercise his peremptory challenges.”
• counsel permitted to ascertain prospective jurors' attitudes regarding minimum punishment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Allridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-13· cited 612×
• Janecka v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-27· cited 587×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-24· cited 360×
• Esquivel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-09· cited 256×
• Mays v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-12-03· cited 209×
• Guerra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-04· cited 193×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-27· cited 179×
• McCarter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 143×
• Briddle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 136×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-11· cited 134×
• Chimney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-11-03· cited 124×
• Brandon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-21· cited 120×
• Easley, Damian Demitrius
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-03-12· cited 119×
• Ratliff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-05· cited 114×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 86×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-26· cited 84×
• Cardenas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-11-10· cited 82×
• Trevino v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-12· cited 78×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 208×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 203×
• De La Rosa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-05-03· cited 118×
• Abron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-23· cited 98×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-24· cited 78×
• Mathis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1959-04-08· cited 76×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-03-13· cited 74×
• Grizzell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-11-21· cited 70×
• Battie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-01· cited 51×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-05-03· cited 51×
• Burkett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-11-13· cited 42×
• Weaver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-02-23· cited 38×