Pennington v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• where conviction was reversed after the State argued “the people of Nueces County expect you to put this man away”
• ‘The people of Nueces County expect you to put this man away’
• prosecutor stated, \The people of Nueces County expect you to put this man away.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-04-11· cited 428×
• McGee v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-15· cited 294×
• Wilhelm v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1974-09-26· cited 259×
• Cortez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-10-17· cited 169×
• Decker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-24· cited 113×
• Goocher v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-10· cited 87×
• Ridyolph v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-05· cited 67×
• Ward v. Dretke
  Fifth Circuit· 2005-08-09· cited 65×
• State v. Dudley
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2007-04-30· cited 63×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-06-11· cited 59×
• Overstreet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-09-16· cited 56×
• Wilson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2005-11-03· cited 51×
• Prado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-01-27· cited 46×
• Spencer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-04-07· cited 43×
• Whittington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-05-16· cited 38×
• Sierra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-12-21· cited 32×
• Fritz Whittington v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-05-20· cited 30×
• Koffel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-04· cited 30×
• Bothwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-10· cited 26×
• Carver v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-01· cited 20×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Cox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1951-12-05· cited 46×
• Porter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1950-02-01· cited 36×
• Lair v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1960-03-23· cited 12×