Rutledge v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• witness testified defendant was impeccable, never drank, didn’t curse, and was just a nice person
• witness testified defendant was impeccable, never drank, didn’t curse, and was just a nice person
• pre-rule 405 case discussing when \have you heard\ questions may be asked of character witnesses
• pre-rule 405 case discussing when “have you heard” questions may be asked of character witnesses
• where similar questions are asked and answered without objection, the trial court’s error in sustaining the State’s objection to defense witness’s testimony, if any, was harmless

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-03-20· cited 924×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 199×
• G.M.P., Matter Of
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1995-09-21· cited 81×
• Hedicke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 77×
• Murphy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-11-24· cited 69×
• Lamb v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-06-23· cited 59×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-11-16· cited 36×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-26· cited 35×
• Kemmerer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-07-10· cited 33×
• Blevins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1994-09-28· cited 27×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1995-04-05· cited 11×
• Blackwell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-04-06· cited 2×
• Matter of GMP
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1995-09-21
• Swinney v. Tenth District Court of Appeals
  Texas Supreme Court· 1988-05-11
• Bengie Dejohn Francis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-11-29
• Sean David Carpenter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-05-01
• Sheldon Wayne Oku v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1999-10-07
• Roderick Demetry Reeders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2005-09-14
• Daniel Matt Gustafson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1991-04-25
• Dorothy Jo Lastor v. City of Hearne
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1991-03-28