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 jurors are presumed to attach common understanding of meaning of terms that are not defined in jury charge
• concluding appellant’s substantial rights not harmed where record clearly showed appellant had actual notice of capital charge upon which State was basing allegations
• determining that defendant was not harmed where record showed that he “had actual notice of the capital charge upon which the State was basing its allegations”
• stating that the indictment must be specific enough to inform the defendant of the nature of the accusations against him so that he may prepare a defense.
• holding words not statutorily defined are given their usual meaning
• “This 22 Court has long held that murder is a lesser-included offense of capital murder.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-16· cited 441×
• Proenza, Abraham Jacob
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-11-15· cited 225×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-11-21· cited 196×
• Buntion v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-01-27· cited 191×
• Buxton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-07-26· cited 72×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-28· cited 69×
• Gregory Pollock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-06-27· cited 67×
• Brock v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-01-07· cited 35×
• Uyamadu v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-12-29· cited 33×
• Xiomara Rosales Mendez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-08-16· cited 32×
• Barrera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2010-06-16· cited 29×
• Kenneth Cooper McAfee v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-05-12· cited 22×
• Shawn Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-06-16· cited 20×
• Kimberly Nicole Cormier v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2017-12-19· cited 19×
• Grey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-11-04· cited 16×
• Holton v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-14· cited 16×
• Leticia Bleil v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-09· cited 14×
• Irvin Hollis Ferree v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-22· cited 12×
• Jacob Scott Turner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2014-01-30· cited 9×
• Demetrius Smith v. Lorie Davis, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2019-06-13· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Ohio v. Roberts
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-10-18· cited 2,680×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Adams v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 1,718×
• Rousseau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-24· cited 1,521×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,305×
• Baze v. Rees
  Supreme Court· 2008-04-16· cited 1,040×
• Colburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-02-25· cited 754×
• Gallo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-09-26· cited 687×
• Chamberlain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-06-16· cited 676×
• Prystash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 668×
• Feldman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-02-20· cited 654×