Skinner 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 trial counsel’s explanation that he did not ask for testing because “he was afraid the DNA would turn out to be appellant’s” was sufficient trial strategy
• explaining that Rule 77.3 “prohibits the use of an unpublished opinion as authority of any sort, whether binding or persuasive”
• interpreting Chapter 64 provisions in conjunction and observing that, in interpreting statutes, we presume that the entire statute is \intended to be effective\
• denying post-conviction DNA testing because defense counsel made a “reasonable” decision to forgo testing at trial
• if trial counsel declined to seek testing because of a reasonable fear that the results would be incriminating at trial, post-trial testing is not usually required by the interests of justice

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Skinner v. Switzer
  Supreme Court· 2011-03-07· cited 1,318×
• Ex Parte Gutierrez
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-05-04· cited 235×
• Ex Parte Napper
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-29· cited 207×
• Swearingen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-02-10· cited 106×
• Whitfield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-05-07· cited 57×
• Wood v. Patton
  Fifth Circuit· 2025-03-07· cited 4×
• Albert Torres Nieves v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-07-16
• Napper, Ex Parte Lawrence James
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-29
• Swearingen, Larry Ray
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-02-10
• Gutierrez, Ruben
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-05-04
• Whitfield, Robert
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-05-07
• in Re Johnny Ray Valchar
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2010-04-29
• Roger Eugene Fain v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-03-08
• Samuel Rene Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2010-08-31
• Ex Parte Tracy Wayne Tow
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-08-18
• Casey Austin Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2016-06-07
• Reed, Rodney
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-02-23
• Skinner, Henry Watkins
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-13
• Skinner, Henry Watkins
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-01-27
• Albert Torres Nieves v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2015-05-29

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Boykin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-09· cited 1,829×
• Dowthitt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-26· cited 1,429×
• Rivera v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-11-06· cited 551×
• Skinner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-05-21· cited 330×
• Skinner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-12-10· cited 67×
• Skinner v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2008-05-14· cited 24×
• Skinner v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-07-14· cited 19×