Simmons v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• constitutional violation of the first order where the defendant was deprived of the opportunity to offer any testimony regarding possible motives or bias
• “[G]reat latitude is allowed the accused in showing any fact, including pending charges, which would tend to establish ill feeling, bias, motive, and animus on the part of any witness testifying against him.”
• “[G]reat latitude is allowed the accused in showing any fact, including pending charges, which would tend to establish ill feeling, bias, motive, and animus on the part of any witness testifying against him.” (emphasis added)
• charges had been dismissed against witness but could be refiled by State

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-19· cited 254×
• Alexander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 252×
• Cannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-05-08· cited 228×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-27· cited 177×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-10· cited 164×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-10-10· cited 135×
• Carrillo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 133×
• Miller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-16· cited 122×
• Koehler v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-10-17· cited 114×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-07· cited 108×
• Hurd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-02-25· cited 101×
• Carmona v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-10· cited 77×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-09-15· cited 68×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-28· cited 59×
• Whitaker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-01· cited 52×
• Spain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-06· cited 47×
• Cloud v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 38×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-21· cited 28×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-06· cited 24×

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-26· cited 99×
• Mutscher v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-24· cited 98×
• Burkhalter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-02-21· cited 86×