Mays 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 it was not an abuse of discretion for the trial to refuse to poll the jurors about their potential exposure to media coverage of the case
• holding that a defendant’s failure to specify the facts or legal theory supporting the submission of a defense forfeits the error on appeal
• concluding that appellant failed to preserve his complaints about “a series of egregiously improper remarks” by not objecting to those arguments at trial
• concluding that appellant failed to preserve his complaints about “a series of egregiously improper remarks” by not objecting to those arguments at trial
• concluding that appellant failed to preserve his complaints about “a series of egregiously improper remarks” by not objecting to those arguments at trial
• concluding that appellant failed to preserve his complaints about “a series of egregiously improper remarks” by not objecting to those arguments at trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Isassi v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-12-08· cited 1,500×
• Lucio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 574×
• Devoe, Paul Gilbert
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-12-14· cited 430×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-29· cited 377×
• Leza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-10-12· cited 253×
• People v. Boyce
  California Supreme Court· 2014-07-24· cited 238×
• Goad, Joshua Lee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-11-09· cited 207×
• State v. Timothy Alan Dunlap
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2013-08-27· cited 191×
• Celis, Mauricio Rodriguez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-15· cited 191×
• Okonkwo, Chidiebele Gabriel
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-05-15· cited 181×
• Alford, Cecil Edward
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-02-08· cited 134×
• In the Interest of J.L.B. and J.R.B., Children
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-09-02· cited 119×
• Malone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2013-01-11· cited 103×
• Krajcovic v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-03-06· cited 97×
• Donnie Roberts v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2012-05-15· cited 88×
• Prihoda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-09-29· cited 70×
• Randall Mays v. William Stephens, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-06-27· cited 61×
• Turner, Albert James
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2018-11-14· cited 58×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-12-29· cited 44×
• Mauricio Rodriguez Celis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-08-31· cited 39×

Cites

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

• Almanza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 6,557×
• Roper v. Simmons
  Supreme Court· 2005-03-01· cited 3,523×
• Atkins v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 2002-06-20· cited 3,384×
• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Wesbrook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 2,816×
• Ladd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 1,900×
• Victor v. Nebraska
  Supreme Court· 1994-05-16· cited 1,656×
• Cockrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,118×
• Lankston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 897×
• Paulson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-10-04· cited 872×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-18· cited 866×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-22· cited 826×
• Threadgill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-13· cited 818×
• Colburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-02-25· cited 754×
• Johnson v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1993-08-09· cited 750×
• Druery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-04· cited 719×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-10· cited 698×
• Posey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-25· cited 696×
• Prystash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 668×