Nichols 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 where the prosecutor asked the complainant in a statutory rape case whether she had taken a polygraph test and the witness had answered in the affirmative, \the harm done was so great that no instruction from the court could remove it.\
• stating that revealing the fact that a polygraph test was taken is “highly prejudicial” and “no instruction from the court [can] remove it” and that “the learned trial judge fell into error in not granting appellant’s motion for a mistrial”
• “We think it fair to observe that the only reason that anyone would possibly take a lie detector test would be to determine whether or not they were telling the truth.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Tennard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-01-30· cited 232×
• Leonard, William Thomas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-11-21· cited 214×
• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Poole v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-01-07· cited 99×
• Hart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-11-12· cited 78×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-04-20· cited 77×
• Long v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-01-07· cited 57×
• Guesfeird v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1984-08-24· cited 53×
• Jasso v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-07-31· cited 50×
• Bryant, Billy Ray
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-11-19· cited 49×
• Shavers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-06-30· cited 45×
• Banda v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-04· cited 41×
• Renesto v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-03-25· cited 40×
• Leach v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-19· cited 34×
• Lee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-05-06· cited 31×
• Peyton v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1998-03-12· cited 29×
• People v. Andrews
  California Court of Appeal· 1970-12-30· cited 24×
• Jannise v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1990-05-10· cited 19×
• D. L. N. v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1979-11-21· cited 19×
• Black v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1982-05-18· cited 18×

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• Tyler v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1952-03-24· cited 79×
• Kaminski v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1953-02-24· cited 76×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-12-04· cited 50×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1963-04-10· cited 45×
• Mason v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1951-11-08· cited 41×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1951-12-05· cited 33×
• Bearden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1960-03-23· cited 22×
• Placker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1961-10-02· cited 18×
• Stockwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-04-10· cited 15×
• Monasco v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1962-06-30· cited 8×
• Diamond v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1962-03-28· cited 5×