Russell 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 instruction regarding credibility of expert witnesses was comment on weight of evidence when only expert witness to testify was defense expert
• “It has long been held that it is reversible error for the trial court to give instructions that refer to the credibility of the witnesses.”
• “[W]hen a judge, in his charge to the jury, suggests that certain evidence is true or is untrue, that is a comment on the weight of the evidence.”
• “[W]hen a judge, in his charge to the jury, suggests that certain evidence is true or is untrue, that is a comment on the weight of the evidence.”
• “[W]hen a judge, in his charge to the jury, suggests that certain evidence is true or is untrue, that is a comment on the weight of the evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Cagle v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2000-07-06· cited 88×
• Zani v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-27· cited 72×
• Delapaz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2007-08-03· cited 56×
• LACAZE v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-07· cited 56×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-09-17· cited 34×
• Thien Quoc Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2016-11-09· cited 25×
• Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-01-29· cited 19×
• Cox v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1992-12-16· cited 14×
• Casey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-03-10· cited 8×
• Richard Nieto Trevino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2013-03-18· cited 6×
• Daniel Cardon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2014-06-26· cited 1×
• Taneesha Monique Sims v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-05-31
• Craig Mitchell Staggs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2007-06-28
• Sean P. O'Connell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-04-27
• Gregory Tatum v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-01-06
• David Wayne Casey, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2004-12-02
• David Wayne Casey, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-03-10
• Roel Torres v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-02-24
• Jett Bruce Sanders v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-01-29
• Jett Bruce Sanders v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2002-01-25