Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• proper questions related to the venire‘s ―idea of punishment‖ and ―what they think its purpose should be‖
• question for jurors “thoughts” on insanity defense was not a proper question because it was improperly broad, even though it related to the defense raised in the case
• A question may discover a juror’s view on an issue applicable to the case.
• Court held that a question was improper when defense counsel tried to elicit jury panel’s “thoughts” and “observations” on insanity defense. Court portrayed inquiry as “so broad a question as to constitute a global fishing expedition”
• improperly broad to ask venire members what \their thoughts\ were on insanity defense
• improperly broad to ask venire members what “their thoughts” were on insanity defense

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lagrone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-05· cited 911×
• Allridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-13· cited 612×
• Janecka v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-27· cited 587×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Barajas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-26· cited 390×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-04-24· cited 360×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 297×
• Caldwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-16· cited 241×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-29· cited 196×
• Guerra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-04· cited 193×
• Cockrum v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-14· cited 163×
• McCarter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 143×
• Earhart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 140×
• Blackwell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-06-07· cited 139×
• Santana v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-04-09· cited 135×
• Atkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 125×
• Faulder v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-30· cited 119×
• Easley, Damian Demitrius
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-03-12· cited 119×
• Davila v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-09-18· cited 118×
• Woolridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-02-26· cited 98×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 203×
• McManus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 193×
• De La Rosa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-05-03· cited 118×
• United States v. John W. Hinckley, Jr. United States of America v. John W. Hinckley, Jr
  D.C. Circuit· 1982-02-23· cited 106×
• Abron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-23· cited 98×
• Mathis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-10· cited 95×
• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-11-26· cited 84×
• Mathis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1959-04-08· cited 76×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-14· cited 55×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-16· cited 33×
• Trevino v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-05· cited 29×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-11-03· cited 25×
• Robles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1981-12-10· cited 7×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1984-01-17· cited 6×
• Cook v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1966-05-31· cited 1×