McGowen v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding error in refusing to permit defendant to make opening statement, during guilt- 6 innocence stage of murder trial, was harmful error because defense presented complex self-defense theory over two day period, with testimony from nine witnesses

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Webb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-12-28· cited 214×
• Sanchez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2005-10-12· cited 49×
• Espinosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-10-12· cited 43×
• Aldrich v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2001-08-30· cited 31×
• Melissa Dromgoole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-23· cited 18×
• Sparks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2001-06-13· cited 16×
• Khaleem Hasan Guillory v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-04-02· cited 6×
• Olen Ware II v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-10-02
• Lora Ann Forrest v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-01-22
• Melissa Dromgoole v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-08-25
• Mauro Ibarra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2007-08-30
• John David Brown v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2002-06-18
• Douglas Edward Hirsch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-02-21
• Bakari D. Holland v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-01-06
• Quinn Cruz, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2016-06-08
• Dromgoole, Melissa
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-10-20
• Landon Johnson v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2023-10-10
• Richard Charles Schmidt v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2024-02-23

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 2,567×
• O'NEAL v. McAninch
  Supreme Court· 1995-02-21· cited 1,687×
• Abdnor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-26· cited 1,398×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-06-18· cited 1,033×
• Ovalle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-03-08· cited 800×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-22· cited 197×
• Fowler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-03-11· cited 148×
• Fowler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-03-31· cited 141×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-06-09· cited 133×
• Umoja v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-04-16· cited 70×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-24· cited 62×
• Chappell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-03· cited 58×
• Merritt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-12-10· cited 58×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-07-20· cited 45×
• Caraway v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-06-14· cited 39×
• Oesby v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1977-12-13· cited 37×
• Twine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-17· cited 13×
• McGowen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1997-04-10· cited 9×
• McGowen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-10-28· cited 4×