Porter 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 it was proper for prosecutor to argue that, “people can be killed in armed robberies” even though no one was killed in offense
• upholding as proper jury argument the statement “people get killed in armed robberies” because the defendant was armed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Borjan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-21· cited 409×
• Nethery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-22· cited 365×
• Whitsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-09-19· cited 278×
• Denison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-05-04· cited 191×
• Gomez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-20· cited 103×
• Richards v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-04-03· cited 59×
• Aitch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-05-12· cited 45×
• Villarreal v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-06-27· cited 43×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-10-03· cited 38×
• Parks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-02-24· cited 31×
• Zertuche v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1989-10-04· cited 20×
• Levingston v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1983-10-05· cited 10×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-04-01· cited 8×
• Banda v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-15· cited 8×
• Cosino v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-10-19· cited 5×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-08-12· cited 3×
• Villarreal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-09· cited 3×
• Carraway v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-24· cited 2×
• Murray v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-11-29· cited 2×
• Vaughn Levy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-01-06