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.

• instruction that police officers are to be tested by same standards of credibility as other witnesses and instruction on weight to be given testimony of expert witnesses were both properly refused because they would have been comments on weight of evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jurek v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-16· cited 238×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-18· cited 152×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-12· cited 137×
• McCartney v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-20· cited 101×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-12-09· cited 85×
• Thomas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-09-15· cited 73×
• McKittrick v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-20· cited 70×
• Bravo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-01-20· cited 68×
• Church v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-08· cited 65×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-11-24· cited 62×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-20· cited 58×
• Thacker v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-09-29· cited 50×
• Port v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-25· cited 48×
• Hunter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-12-17· cited 38×
• Haywood v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-10· cited 37×
• Florio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-11· cited 33×
• Aranda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1982-09-22· cited 33×
• McDuffie v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1993-09-22· cited 32×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-06· cited 32×
• Waller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-13· cited 30×

Cites

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

• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Bumper v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 3,107×
• Albrecht v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-09-25· cited 705×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Cleveland Thompson v. Charles L. Dye, Warden, Allegheny County Jail
  Third Circuit· 1955-05-23· cited 122×
• Means v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-05-22· cited 120×
• Frison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-11-02· cited 105×
• Hinkle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-05-21· cited 85×
• Corbett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-01· cited 78×
• Graham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-09-25· cited 57×
• Parks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-02-19· cited 46×
• Nash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-01-11· cited 45×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-06-18· cited 43×
• William Thomas v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1965-03-09· cited 41×
• Shelby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-08· cited 41×
• Broadway v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-07-12· cited 38×
• Archawski v. Hanioti
  Supreme Court· 1955-10-24· cited 35×
• Gutierrez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-19· cited 33×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-04-08· cited 30×
• Garza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-15· cited 29×