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.

• noting that court of criminal appeals has long allowed expert ballistics testimony
• permitting properly qualified expert pathologist to express his professional opinion on position of body of decedent at time shot was fired
• “[I]t is improper to allow any opinion evidence as to the guilt or innocence of a criminal defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-04-11· cited 428×
• Brimage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-10· cited 376×
• McGinn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-21· cited 216×
• Villarreal v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-13· cited 157×
• Naasz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1998-07-30· cited 118×
• Wardrip v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-10-03· cited 74×
• Austin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-06· cited 74×
• Wyatt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 73×
• Vigneault v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-11· cited 63×
• Bratcher v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1989-04-19· cited 42×
• Philen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 40×
• Ferguson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-01-23· cited 25×
• Gustavo Andres Vasquez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-08-25· cited 18×
• Reid v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1998-02-24· cited 13×
• Tanguma v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1986-10-30· cited 12×
• Merrill v. Sprint Waste Services LP
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-08-15· cited 12×
• Willie Hurst v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2013-04-04· cited 8×
• Long v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-30· cited 5×
• Agbogun v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1988-02-25· cited 3×
• Ken Lee Williamson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-05-22