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 closing argument imputing to defendant the commission of many other similar crimes not supported by the evidence is impermissible
• explaining that arguments made by prosecutor that implied defendant had a scheme of theft and was one of two major thieves was outside of the record and impermissible
• reiterating ban against State suggesting the defendant is responsible for a crime other than that alleged in the indictment
• acknowledging a defendant may plead \not guilty\ to the offense, not take the stand, and still be entitled to an entrapment defense as long as no evidence is presented negating any element of the offense charged
• conviction for theft reversed where prosecutor's comment imputed to defendants theft of other equipment even though there was no such evidence in the record
• \the State may not argue to the jury that the prior convictions are evidence of the defendant's guilt\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Borjan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-21· cited 409×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-26· cited 177×
• Rankin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-10-22· cited 141×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-02· cited 118×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-22· cited 95×
• Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1995-05-10· cited 66×
• Reed v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-05-27· cited 57×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2003-08-28· cited 51×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-11-21· cited 41×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1991-01-03· cited 37×
• Clarke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-31· cited 36×
• Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2000-08-03· cited 33×
• Hubbard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1989-03-31· cited 31×
• Liggins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-10-28· cited 23×
• Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-03-22· cited 22×
• Pittman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1999-12-16· cited 21×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-01-30· cited 20×
• Geuder v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-03-28· cited 19×
• Varkonyi v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2008-10-29· cited 16×
• David Browne v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-12-31· cited 15×

Cites

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

• Alejandro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-11· cited 877×
• McKay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-02· cited 356×
• Euziere v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-20· cited 160×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-03-31· cited 127×
• McWherter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-12· cited 124×
• Norman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-19· cited 120×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-24· cited 64×
• Felder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-26· cited 55×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-04-17· cited 42×
• Rodriquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-02· cited 33×
• Walker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-22· cited 31×
• Thiel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-26· cited 30×
• Ransom v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1982-03-30· cited 30×
• Redman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-18· cited 28×
• Poe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 17×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-23· cited 16×
• McKelva v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-04-01· cited 16×
• Simpson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-01· cited 16×
• Turrentine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-04-20· cited 13×
• Nabors v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-17· cited 13×