O'BRYAN 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 a jury does not invade the province of the Board when it determines the probability of a capital defendant’s future dangerousness
• holding that a prosecutor, in argument, may comment upon the defendant’s failure to call certain witnesses
• holding that a prosecutor, in argument, may comment upon the defendant = s failure to call certain witnesses
• jury can find that defendant will constitute future threat to society even though defendant has no prior criminal record
• murder of defendant's child by poisoning with Halloween candy, planned for at least ten months and carried out with cold calculation in order to collect life insurance proceeds
• A The duration of confinement following its assessment of punishment is not a legitimate concern of a jury @

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Cited by

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

• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 1,170×
• Allridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-13· cited 612×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-03-28· cited 589×
• Madden v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 557×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 484×
• Keeton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-15· cited 379×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-19· cited 373×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-29· cited 371×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-10-19· cited 351×
• Bower v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-01-25· cited 311×
• Duckett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-10-10· cited 294×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Berry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-05-23· cited 288×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-03-23· cited 286×
• Burdine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-15· cited 284×
• Garrett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-13· cited 261×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-28· cited 257×
• Aliff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-03· cited 255×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-07-06· cited 254×

Cites

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

• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Mullaney v. Wilbur
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-09· cited 3,396×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• Boulden v. Holman
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-02· cited 477×
• People v. Morse
  California Supreme Court· 1964-01-07· cited 474×
• Davis v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-12-06· cited 352×
• Crocker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 336×
• Jurek v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-16· cited 238×
• Maxwell v. Bishop
  Supreme Court· 1970-06-01· cited 233×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-10-26· cited 216×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-06· cited 208×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 203×
• Burns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-03· cited 192×
• Duffy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-07· cited 182×
• Bodde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-14· cited 168×
• Hammett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-28· cited 163×
• Von Byrd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-07-12· cited 162×

Other cases named O'BRYAN v. State

12 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• O'BRYAN v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1994-05-03· cited 16×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-04-28· cited 14×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-01-29· cited 11×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-01-06· cited 10×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1978-05-31· cited 8×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-09-17· cited 6×
• O'Bryan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-05-28· cited 6×
• O'Bryan v. State
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1924-02-26· cited 6×
• O'Bryan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-12-08· cited 2×
• O'Bryan v. State
  New York State Court of Claims· 1910-08-15· cited 2×
• O'Bryan v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1889-03-09· cited 1×
• O'Bryan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1921-11-16