Pollard v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• uncontradicted evidence was that defendant carried a tire iron when he approached complainant’s car; no witnesses other than complainant to this fact
• where victim and accused were only persons present during offense, prosecutor’s remark that victim’s statement was uncontradicted was comment on defendant’s failure to testify because defendant was only person who could refute victim’s testimony
• where victim and accused were only persons present during offense, prosecutor’s remark that victim’s statement was uncontradicted was comment on defendant’s failure to testify because defendant was only person who could refute victim’s testimony
• “A statement that certain evidence is uncontroverted or unrefuted or uncontradicted does not constitute a comment on the accused’s failure to testify where the 13 record indicates that persons other than the accused could have offered contradictory testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

35 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×
• Losada v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-29· cited 505×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 143×
• Faulkner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-06· cited 138×
• Campos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-27· cited 122×
• Owen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-15· cited 88×
• Nickens v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-30· cited 66×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-06-20· cited 56×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-08· cited 51×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2002-12-19· cited 49×
• Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1998-03-19· cited 45×
• Bethel v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-11-19· cited 39×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 34×
• Pollard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-14· cited 19×
• State v. Gibbs
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2009-04-02· cited 17×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-04-04· cited 17×
• Hough v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1992-05-06· cited 11×
• City of Fargo v. Lunday
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2009-02-03· cited 10×
• Henson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-03· cited 9×
• Barber v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-05-05· cited 8×