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.

• swearing officer’s failure to sign affidavit did not invalidate it or warrant based on it when other evidence shows that the officer swore to the truth of the facts in the affidavit before the issuing magistrate
• upholding validity of warrant where affiant failed to sign affidavit; “Although the affiant’s signature on an affidavit serves as an important memorialization of the officer’s act of swearing before the magistrate, it is that act of swearing, not the signature itself, that is essential.”
• “When an individual swears under oath, society’s expectation of truthfulness increases and the legal consequences for untruthfulness—prosecution for perjury, for example—may be severe.”
• doctrine states that court is to determine whether probable cause for issuance of search warrant was established based on the “four corners” of the affidavit
• search warrant affidavit requires oath, not necessarily signature

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Clay, Sara Kathrine
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-01-09· cited 41×
• Hughes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2011-03-30· cited 23×
• State of Iowa v. Maurice D. Angel and Kemia B. McDowell
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-04-21· cited 10×
• Chase Erick Wheeler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2019-03-21· cited 7×
• Sara Katherine Clay v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2012-03-21· cited 6×
• Alexis Flores v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-03-29· cited 5×
• Daniel G. Jarnagin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2012-11-30· cited 5×
• State v. Moreno-Gonzalez
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-09-30· cited 4×
• Pamela Patterson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2014-11-07
• Unnamed case
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2015-08-31
• Michael Dewayne Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-03-23
• in the Interest of B.L.R.P., a Child
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-10-16
• Ismael Avalos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-05-15
• Raegan D. Ashcraft v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-08-20
• Ex Parte Safiq Karedia
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-02-15
• Zanzetta Alvina Franklin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-09-06
• Tai Nguyen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-06-24
• Robert Tracy Warterfield v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2014-08-27
• Anthony Wayne Swinnie v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2013-08-08
• State v. Samantha D. Rodriguez
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2011-05-25

Cites

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

• Illinois v. Gates
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-08· cited 16,716×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Trupiano v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1948-06-14· cited 611×
• State v. Keith
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1998-09-28· cited 566×
• Swearingen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-06-23· cited 369×
• Hankins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-04-21· cited 254×
• Powell v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1978-03-08· cited 97×
• United States v. William D. Turner
  Second Circuit· 1977-06-02· cited 89×
• Huff v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1973-03-05· cited 48×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Jesse Pugh v. Frank J. Pate, Warden of the Illinois State Penitentiary
  Seventh Circuit· 1968-09-19· cited 43×
• Bigler v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-10-27· cited 42×
• People v. Tice
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1997-02-04· cited 36×
• State v. Davis
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1989-12-20· cited 33×
• Christopher Boyer v. State of Arizona and Frank Eyman, Warden of Arizona State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 1972-02-09· cited 25×
• State v. Colon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-07-05· cited 25×
• Commonwealth v. McAfee
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 22×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1985-07-09· cited 20×
• Hunter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2003-03-05· cited 20×
• People v. Zimmer
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1985-07-03· cited 16×
• State v. Nunn
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1989-11-29· cited 12×