Sherman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• statement signed after investigator con- vinced suspect he would receive the death penalty if he did not sign was invalid waiver of rights
• “[T]he trial court abused its discretion in overruling appellant’s motion to suppress because appellant’s allegations of coercion were not contradicted.”
• confession found involuntary when uncontroverted evidence showed that the defendant would not have signed his confession but for the fact the officer convinced him that he would get the death penalty if he did not

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Bonham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-11-21· cited 331×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 147×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-11-03· cited 87×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-26· cited 80×
• Barton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-08· cited 57×
• Honea v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-27· cited 55×
• Espinosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1995-06-01· cited 48×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 45×
• Alonzo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 31×
• Newcomb v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-23· cited 18×
• McBride v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-04-03· cited 9×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1983-11-23· cited 7×
• Jose Bernardo Jimenez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2000-08-24· cited 4×
• Carr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-12· cited 4×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-05-13· cited 2×
• Conner v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-11· cited 1×
• McKenna v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-08-31· cited 1×
• Jose Fernando Cervantes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2014-12-04
• Gerald Christopher Zuliani v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-07-12

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Haynes v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 1,403×
• Sims v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 242×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1964-11-11· cited 131×
• Farr v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-12· cited 79×