Myers 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 prosecutor’s argument that there has been no explanation for why a person would possess so much marijuana was an impermissible critique on the defendants’ failure to testify
• holding that State's argument that there had been no explanation why a man would have 269 pounds of marijuana was comment on defendant's failure to testify because defendant was only one who could offer explanation
• holding prosecutor’s argument that only defendant or his codefendant knew defendant’s possible motive for possessing 269 pounds of marijuana was improper comment on defendant’s failure to testify
• holding prosecutor = s argument that only defendant or his codefendant knew defendant = s possible motive for possessing 269 pounds of marijuana was improper comment on defendant = s failure to testify
• prosecutor made an improper closing argument when a comment about an accurate statement of fact created an implied or indirect allusion to the defendant’s failure to testify
• prosecutor made an improper closing argument when a comment about an accurate statement of fact created an implied or indirect allusion to the defendant’s failure to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Madden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 557×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Wolfe v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-06· cited 343×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• Banks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-11-03· cited 145×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 143×
• Robison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-29· cited 140×
• Owen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-15· cited 88×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-09-15· cited 73×
• Angel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-10· cited 63×
• Fogle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-03-11· cited 40×
• Anderson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-06-26· cited 38×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-10-03· cited 38×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 34×
• Eric Dewayne Watts v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-05-08· cited 34×
• Joel Navarro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-07· cited 32×
• Hicks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-08-01· cited 13×
• Hough v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1992-05-06· cited 11×
• Escort v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1986-06-26· cited 10×
• Barber v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-05-05· cited 8×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Bird v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-08· cited 140×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-29· cited 103×
• Nowlin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-03· cited 69×
• Pollard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-22· cited 47×
• Dubose v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-11-26· cited 12×