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.

• holding that the State established the identity of the cocaine through evidence of its proper chain of custody and the cocaine was contraband seized from the defendant, in part because defendant offered no evidence of tampering that might affect admissibility
• holding that the State established the identity of the cocaine through evidence of its proper chain of custody and the cocaine was contraband seized from the defendant, in part because defendant offered no evidence of tampering that might affect admissibility
• sentence of fifty years’ confinement and $5,000 for delivery of cocaine not grossly disproportionate considering the defendant’s criminal history

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1999-03-16· cited 413×
• Trevino v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2005-10-13· cited 295×
• Willis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-05-10· cited 149×
• Winchester v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-02-14· cited 132×
• Alberto v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-02-13· cited 87×
• Sullivan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1998-08-20· cited 85×
• Dunn v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-08-04· cited 76×
• Silva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-04-21· cited 74×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1998-04-21· cited 66×
• Manuel v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2011-08-31· cited 60×
• Jacobs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2002-05-22· cited 48×
• Mendoza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-03-28· cited 47×
• Kingsbury v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-03-01· cited 36×
• Contreras v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-05-23· cited 8×
• Smedley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-02-07· cited 5×
• Joseph Bernard Harris v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-10-23
• in the Matter of S.D.C.
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2003-05-08
• David Benson Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2003-04-10
• Iriz Samantha Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2001-01-11
• Jack Warren Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-08-14

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Heitman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-26· cited 1,035×
• Robert McGruder v. Steven W. Puckett
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-02-27· cited 696×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-06-13· cited 560×
• Stoker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-20· cited 511×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-14· cited 413×
• Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1995-11-08· cited 321×
• Schwarz v. Florida Supreme Court
  Supreme Court· 1990-10-29· cited 207×
• Lackey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1994-11-09· cited 157×
• State Ex Rel. Smith v. Blackwell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-10· cited 146×
• Ex Parte Mangrum
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-12· cited 54×
• Murray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1993-09-21· cited 41×
• Cuba v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 1995-08-10· cited 30×
• Irvine v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1993-06-10· cited 26×
• Alvarez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1993-10-20· cited 21×
• Fiori v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1995-11-28· cited 9×
• State v. Lewis
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1996-02-05· cited 7×