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 that statements made about communications between police officers and dispatchers were admissible at trial to show circumstances leading up to shooting
• holding evidence that defendant had committed a robbery eleven days earlier was relevant to show his motive
• admission of evidence that the defendant shot the victim to avoid being apprehended for an armed robbery that the defendant committed eleven days earlier
• The trial court's decision to deny a defendant's motion for psychiatric testing will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion.
• The trial court's decision to deny a defendant's motion for psychiatric testing will not be disturbed absent an abuse of discretion.
• extra-judicial statement offered for purpose of showing what was said rather than for truth of matter stated therein does not constitute hearsay

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dewberry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-20· cited 2,718×
• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Dowthitt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-26· cited 1,429×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-21· cited 684×
• Allridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-13· cited 612×
• Ex Parte Welborn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-14· cited 509×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-03-27· cited 418×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-11-18· cited 378×
• McKay v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-02· cited 356×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 244×
• Crane v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-31· cited 241×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-11· cited 224×
• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 195×
• Guerra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-04· cited 193×
• Felix Sandoval v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-09-13· cited 166×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-02-03· cited 153×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-16· cited 150×
• Colone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-05-08· cited 146×
• Pyles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-01· cited 138×
• Briddle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 136×