Reed v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• instructing that an accused must show by a greater than 50% likelihood that he would not have been convicted if the proposed testing’s exculpatory results were available at the time of his trial
• noting that circumstances surrounding the request may be considered, including: the promptness of the request, the temporal proximity between the request and the sentence’s execution, and the ability to request the testing earlier
• affirming the denial of a motion for post-conviction DNA testing where the trial court credited testimony that “many people handled [the] exhibits without gloves”
• denying DNA testing of evidence that had “been contamin- ated, tampered with, or altered”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Reed v. Goertz
  Supreme Court· 2023-04-19· cited 132×
• Hall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-01-30· cited 38×
• Gutierrez v. Saenz
  Supreme Court· 2025-06-26· cited 26×
• Reed v. Goertz
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-04-22· cited 12×
• Gutierrez v. Saenz
  Fifth Circuit· 2024-02-08· cited 6×
• Reed v. Goertz
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-05-01· cited 5×
• Wood v. Patton
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-03-07· cited 4×
• Dohnal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-15· cited 2×
• John Lawrence Matthews v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2018-06-27
• Kevin Castro v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2019-07-25
• Antonio Rodriguez, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-07-26
• State v. Joe D. Bryan
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2019-08-30
• State v. Joe D. Bryan
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2019-11-27
• Antonio Lamar Cochran v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2019-12-30
• Gutierrez, Ruben
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2020-02-26
• Jeffrey Lee Manns v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2020-03-26
• State v. Phillips
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 2020-06-03
• Eduardo Chapa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2020-08-20
• in Re Guadalupe Padilla
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2021-01-14
• in Re Tom Robertson, Sr.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2021-04-08

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Rivera v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-11-06· cited 551×
• State v. Patrick
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-09-11· cited 334×
• Ex Parte Reed
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-12-17· cited 301×
• Kutzner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-10· cited 255×
• Ex Parte Gutierrez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-05-04· cited 235×
• Routier v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-18· cited 154×
• Swearingen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-02-10· cited 106×
• Rodney Reed v. William Stephens, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-01-10· cited 84×
• Holberg, Brittany Marlowe AKA Johnson, Brittany Marlowe
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-02· cited 75×
• State of Texas v. Swearingen, Larry Ray
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-02-05· cited 73×
• Thacker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-07· cited 38×