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.

• holding that a prospective juror with bias or prejudice against the parties in the case must be excused for cause
• holding that a prospective juror who expresses an inability to be fair to the state is biased in favor of the defendant and is challengeable for cause
• holding that a prospective juror who expresses an inability to be fair to the state is biased in favor of the defendant and is challengeable for cause
• holding that a venire member who said he might give more credibility to a Texas Ranger’s testimony was allowed to serve as a juror
• holding that \bias or prejudice in favor of or against the defendant\ in article 35.16(a)(9) includes bias for or against the State, as bias against one would constitute bias in favor of the other
• holding that because appellant failed to apply the law to the facts of his case to demonstrate why he should prevail, his point of error was inadequately briefed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ladd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 1,900×
• Cardenas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-04-26· cited 758×
• Colburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-02-25· cited 754×
• Prystash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 668×
• Granados v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-08· cited 418×
• Buntion v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-01-27· cited 191×
• Sanchez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-06-22· cited 159×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-05-06· cited 142×
• Hyundai Motor Co. v. Vasquez
  Texas Supreme Court· 2006-03-10· cited 129×
• Sims v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2000-03-06· cited 94×
• Anson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-10-08· cited 58×
• Nejnaoui v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-05-03· cited 56×
• Biagas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-09-28· cited 50×
• Sanders v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1998-03-19· cited 45×
• Woods v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2000-03-03· cited 36×
• Tijerina v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2006-07-13· cited 28×
• Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2000-09-14· cited 25×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-08· cited 23×
• Murphy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2007-06-13· cited 22×
• Gipson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-06-26· cited 21×

Cites

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

• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Morgan v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-15· cited 1,584×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 1,170×
• Moody v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-15· cited 415×
• Hai Hai Vuong v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-08· cited 352×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-03· cited 256×
• Montoya v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 256×
• Holland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-07-13· cited 247×
• Staley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-27· cited 194×
• Purtell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-11-02· cited 171×
• Zimmerman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-07· cited 148×
• Riley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-21· cited 133×
• Norris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-01· cited 131×
• Hai Hai Vuong v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1992-11-30· cited 131×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-12· cited 119×
• Pirovolos v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1987-03-09· cited 102×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-12-07· cited 89×
• Easterling v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-01-15· cited 81×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-03· cited 74×