Melton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a person’s Fifth Amendment rights do not come into play before an investigation reaches the accusatorial or custodial stage
• \Whether the accused is or [is] not under arrest is to be determined from the sufficiency of facts to reasonably create the impression on his mind that he is under arrest\
• “When appellant made the statement[,] the investigation had not yet shifted from the investigatory to the accusatory or custodial stage. As such, there was no compulsion and appellant’s Fifth Amendment rights had not come into play.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-15· cited 953×
• Amores v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 529×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 484×
• Stahle v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1998-05-18· cited 73×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-08· cited 70×
• Kelley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-29· cited 44×
• Zavala v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-11-06· cited 30×
• State v. Stevenson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-05-27· cited 28×
• McCulley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-08-18· cited 28×
• Derek Wryan Wilson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-08-14· cited 28×
• Raymond Charles White v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-02-21· cited 26×
• Garza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1996-02-22· cited 24×
• Russell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2007-01-24· cited 20×
• Chiles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1999-03-18· cited 19×
• Mutz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1993-07-21· cited 15×
• White v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1996-10-10· cited 6×
• Ramirez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-03-24· cited 6×
• Almaguer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-10-30· cited 4×
• Robert Snow v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-05-06· cited 1×
• Donnell v. Phillips, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-03-23

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Florida v. Royer
  Supreme Court· 1983-03-23· cited 6,728×
• United States v. Mendenhall
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 6,313×
• Escobedo v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 5,250×
• Dunaway v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1979-06-05· cited 3,633×
• Michigan v. Chesternut
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-13· cited 1,499×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-19· cited 615×
• Hayes v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1985-03-20· cited 603×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-28· cited 505×
• Livingston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-21· cited 483×
• Webb v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-11-09· cited 442×
• United States v. Dudley Lee Berry, A/K/A David Sarver, United States of America v. Jessica Linda Ann Zabish, A/K/A Joanne Sarver
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-03-19· cited 342×
• Dancy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-18· cited 269×
• Shiflet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 264×
• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-09· cited 181×
• Hardesty v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-08· cited 177×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-09· cited 174×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-08· cited 142×
• Brick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-21· cited 140×
• Ussery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-05-11· cited 140×