Overstreet v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \The prohibition against such comment is mandatory and adverse effect of any reference to the accused's failure to testify is not generally cured by instruction to the jury.\
• “The prohibition against such comment is mandatory and adverse effect of any reference to the accused’s failure to testify is not generally cured by instruction to the jury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Vaughn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 375×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 306×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-08· cited 228×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 143×
• Bird v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-10-08· cited 140×
• Dickinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 138×
• Karnes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-02-23· cited 92×
• 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×
• Nickens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-30· cited 66×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-14· cited 61×
• Vaughn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-12-15· cited 60×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-12· cited 53×
• McCarter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-17· cited 44×
• Cazares v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-08· cited 44×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-10-03· cited 38×
• Whittington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-05-16· cited 38×
• Fritz Whittington v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-05-20· cited 30×
• Spelling v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-23· cited 20×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ramos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-10-18· cited 159×
• Pennington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1961-03-29· cited 65×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1951-12-05· cited 46×
• Holbert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-08-21· cited 18×
• Grantom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-05-31· cited 17×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1962-03-21· cited 16×
• Simone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1952-04-02· cited 10×