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 “[a] person is not an accomplice if the person knew about the offense and failed to disclose it or helped the accused conceal it”
• reiterating that evidence an accused was near, or at, the scene of the crime at or about the time the crime was committed may tend to connect the accused to the crime, when coupled with other suspicious circumstances
• accomplice’s testimony cannot be corroborated by prior statements made by accomplice witness to third person
• “When the evidence clearly shows . . . that a witness is an accomplice as a matter of law, the trial judge must instruct the jury accordingly.”
• witness indicted for same offense as accused is accomplice as matter of law
• “[I]t is not appropriate for appellate courts to independently construe non[]accomplice evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Merritt, Ryan Rashad
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-04-18· cited 685×
• Archie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-06-08· cited 233×
• Temple v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-12-21· cited 124×
• Casanova, Matthew John
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-11-21· cited 112×
• Reginald J. Qualls v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2018-04-12· cited 49×
• Jason Alexander Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-05-29· cited 45×
• Ash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-06-28· cited 35×
• Robert Watson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-12-04· cited 34×
• Donald Schnidt v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2012-01-26· cited 28×
• Medrano, Carlos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-01-27· cited 26×
• Aviles-Barroso v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-08-27· cited 23×
• Aaron Lashley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-05-02· cited 20×
• Reginald Ray Washington, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-10-14· cited 18×
• Jeannie Coutta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2012-10-17· cited 18×
• Esteban Ruiz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-08-04· cited 18×
• William Hernandez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-12-02· cited 17×
• Freeman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2011-11-28· cited 14×
• Sebastian Nathanial Roys v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2013-11-08· cited 14×
• Phelps v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-04-10· cited 14×
• Gerardo Gabriel De La Fuente v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-04-02· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Guevara v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-20· cited 1,613×
• Druery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-04· cited 719×
• Paredes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-01-14· cited 582×
• Reed v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-20· cited 437×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-02-05· cited 409×
• Gill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-03-23· cited 392×
• Blake v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-24· cited 372×
• Cocke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-09-20· cited 268×
• Gamez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 257×
• Kunkle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-18· cited 227×
• Solis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-06-27· cited 221×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-29· cited 211×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-18· cited 202×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-12-08· cited 198×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-27· cited 177×
• Ex Parte Zepeda
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 156×
• Irby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-16· cited 141×
• Hammons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-11-14· cited 133×
• Cawley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-11-20· cited 117×
• Garza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1956-12-05· cited 19×