Polk 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 for an objection to be timely, it must be lodged “at the earliest opportunity,” or “as soon as the ground for objection becomes apparent”
• holding that for an objection to be timely, it must be lodged “at the earliest opportunity,” or “as soon as the ground for objection becomes apparent”
• holding that objections made after questions are answered do not preserve error for appeal
• holding that for an objection to be timely, it must be lodged A at the earliest opportunity, @ or A as soon as the ground for objection becomes apparent @
• “gambling that the answer to a question calling for objectionable matter will be favorable, and then objecting when it proves not to be”
• holding to preserve error on appeal by way of objection alone, “the objection must come before the . . . question manifestly calling for objectionable testimony is answered in front of the factfinder” (emphasis in original)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-13· cited 621×
• De La Paz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-18· cited 256×
• Ex Parte Crispen
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-20· cited 64×
• Polk v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-02-24· cited 61×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-15· cited 50×
• Juhasz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-06-24· cited 46×
• Tolbert v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-27· cited 45×
• Tell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-09· cited 41×
• Mai v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-02-09· cited 38×
• Tinlin v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-12-17· cited 31×
• Richard Ryan Black v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-08· cited 31×
• Beckley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-17· cited 24×
• K.P.S., Matter Of
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-08· cited 14×
• Harkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-12-20· cited 7×
• Charleston v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-30· cited 4×
• Guajardo v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-02-03· cited 2×
• Matter of Kps
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1992-10-08
• Michael Elizondo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2015-07-16
• Enrique MaGallon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-06-09
• Michael Shane Gardner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2004-05-27