Ruth v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• determining that suspect was in custody from the moment he admitted to committing the shooting
• interrogating officer testified that he “would have detained” the suspect had he tried to leave and in fact immediately arrested him
• suspect’s “statement that he had shot the victim immediately focused the investiga tion on him and furnished probable cause to believe that he had committed an offense; [ajfter that time, the continued interrogation must be considered a custodial one”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dowthitt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-26· cited 1,429×
• Amores v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 529×
• Hoag v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-15· cited 311×
• Shiflet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 264×
• Wicker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-21· cited 246×
• Meek v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-05-23· cited 239×
• Melton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-05-23· cited 74×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-08· cited 70×
• State v. Pitts
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2006-08-04· cited 54×
• Zhi Jun Xu v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2003-06-04· cited 38×
• Turner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-16· cited 34×
• Garza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2000-10-23· cited 33×
• Zavala v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-11-06· cited 30×
• Cerda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2000-01-06· cited 28×
• McCulley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-08-18· cited 28×
• Sinast v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1985-01-24· cited 27×
• Raymond Charles White v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-02-21· cited 26×
• Resendez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-05-29· cited 23×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2007-09-28· cited 18×
• Robertson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 14×