Overton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that where a witness testifies that an item appears to be the same item taken during an offense, the proper predicate is laid for admission of that item into evidence
• noting that where a witness testifies that an item appears to be the same item taken during an offense, the proper predicate is laid for admission of that item into evidence
• “It should be stressed that the [best evidence] rule applies only where the purpose of the offered evidence is to prove the contents of the document.”
• “It should be stressed that the [best evidence] rule applies only where the purpose of the offered evidence is to prove the contents of the document.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-27· cited 418×
• Gholson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-20· cited 117×
• Henriksen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-17· cited 101×
• Curtis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-12· cited 80×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-24· cited 67×
• Nelson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-02-06· cited 50×
• Yanez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-26· cited 44×
• Latham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-14· cited 39×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-05-28· cited 37×
• Navajar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-06-20· cited 35×
• Poore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-18· cited 27×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-19· cited 21×
• Urbano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1988-10-27· cited 20×
• Cook v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1992-04-22· cited 13×
• Kessler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-09· cited 9×
• Casiano v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-30· cited 8×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1981-11-11· cited 8×
• State v. Baldemar Chavera
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2012-10-17· cited 6×
• Houston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-16· cited 5×
• Keane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-08-30· cited 5×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gordon v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1953-02-02· cited 306×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-19· cited 112×
• Bellah v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-04-26· cited 51×
• State v. Coleman
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1969-04-14· cited 47×
• Cage v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1958-05-28· cited 43×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-01-26· cited 38×
• Hefley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-01-10· cited 29×
• Chapin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1958-11-12· cited 25×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-26· cited 22×
• Alejandro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-10-13· cited 22×
• Ex Parte Moore
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-11-06· cited 16×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-22· cited 13×
• Holding v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-12-02· cited 10×
• Reyna v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-15· cited 6×
• Biggerstaff v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1927-12-14· cited 3×
• Burrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-22· cited 1×