Mejia 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 statements against penal interest provide additional credibility to informant’s tips
• holding informant’s demonstration of reliability “reinforced” his credibility

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State of Texas v. Duarte, Gilbert
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-09-12· cited 195×
• Lowery v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1992-10-27· cited 57×
• State v. Wester
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2003-07-01· cited 32×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 30×
• State v. Hill
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-10-16· cited 9×
• Timoteo Rios v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-07-26· cited 6×
• Benjamin Claude Comperry v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-07-10· cited 6×
• Mary Frances Whitaker v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1994-06-22
• David Hackleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1996-02-14
• Steven L. Richey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-12-17
• in Re: Living Centers of Texas, Inc., and Mariner Post-Acute Network, Inc., N/K/a, Mariner Health Care, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-11-16
• State v. John Edward Hill
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-10-16
• John Eric Trevino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-05-20
• Barnes, Brydrick Earl v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-12-01
• Vanessa Marie Van-Ness v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-05-07
• Leon Gamble, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-11-29
• Raul (Rudy) Gonzales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2016-10-25
• Leroy Bartie v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2017-08-01
• Kenneth Alan Amyx v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2018-10-31
• Clifford Wayne Gardner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2020-12-22