Mendez 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 cross-examination is the “greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth”
• although “considerable circumstantial evidence” linked defendant to crime, non-testifying co-defendant’s direct allegation that defendant planned murders, provided weapons, entered victims’ house, and fired gun was more persuasive to jury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Motilla v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-26· cited 1,558×
• Walter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-10-01· cited 101×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-05-19· cited 71×
• Ricketts v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2002-11-27· cited 59×
• Scott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-05-12· cited 45×
• Wall v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-10-07· cited 25×
• Bratton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2005-02-28· cited 18×
• Bennie Fuelberg v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-07-16· cited 14×
• Romualdo Calixto v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-12-20· cited 13×
• Jahanian v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-08-24· cited 12×
• Clay v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-02-01· cited 2×
• Willie Allen Clay v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-05-19
• X. L. Jefferson, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-12-20
• Carlos Francisco Charles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2002-02-07
• David Andrew Mendez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2004-12-16
• Roderick Strong v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2004-01-08
• Vincent Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-05-19
• Michael Scott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-03-24
• Manuel Caudillo Ramirez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-08-25
• Texas Department of Criminal Justice v. Edward McElyea
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-07-26

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Bruton v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-17· cited 8,792×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Escobedo v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 5,250×
• Burks v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 4,912×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• California v. Green
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
• Dewberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-20· cited 2,718×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-04-15· cited 1,896×
• Patrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-20· cited 1,680×
• Greene v. Massey
  Supreme Court· 1978-06-14· cited 1,268×
• Lilly v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-14· cited 1,183×
• Lee v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-03· cited 1,066×
• Williamson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-27· cited 931×
• Gray v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1998-03-09· cited 723×
• Guidry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-15· cited 633×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-08· cited 484×
• Staley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-27· cited 194×
• Cofield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-10-26· cited 172×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-18· cited 146×