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 the trial court was required to instruct the jury that it could consider the evidence of extraneous offenses solely in assessing the witness's credibility
• holding that the trial court was required to instruct the jury that it could consider the evidence of extraneous offenses solely in assessing the witness’s credibility
• “Generally, an instruction limiting a jury’s consideration of certain evidence is not required when the evidence is admissible to prove a main fact in the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wesbrook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 2,816×
• Ex Parte Varelas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-05-23· cited 262×
• Marquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-01-14· cited 246×
• Parmer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-03-21· cited 119×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1998-03-11· cited 83×
• Navarro v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-20· cited 75×
• Tutt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1997-02-12· cited 63×
• Abdnor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-15· cited 48×
• Angelo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-09-17· cited 43×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-07-25· cited 36×
• Douglas Lee McGowan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-07-12· cited 22×
• Speer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-07-14· cited 18×
• Castaldo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-11-01· cited 13×
• Shanks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-28· cited 10×
• Richardson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1988-05-19· cited 9×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-11-30· cited 5×
• Speer, William Keith v. Texas, the State Of
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1994-07-14
• Daniel Navarro v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1993-09-15
• Gregory Chris Angelo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-09-17
• Jesse Dwayne Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-01-28