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.

• explaining a confession is not involuntary if there was a break in the stream of events from the initial coercion to the giving of the confession
• FBI agent who conducted interview did not know whether New Orleans officers, who had custody of the defendant, had engaged in abusive or threatening behavior
• “[Appellant’s] contention must be sustained because his allegations of coercion were not rebutted by the State.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bonham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-11-21· cited 331×
• Bates v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-01-10· cited 164×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-10-09· cited 147×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-21· cited 132×
• Bush v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-02-03· cited 120×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-10-07· cited 108×
• Henderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-06-24· cited 64×
• Saunders v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-25· cited 61×
• Barton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-08· cited 57×
• Espinosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1995-06-01· cited 48×
• Reeves v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-07· cited 18×
• Eric Ramirez v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2002-04-12· cited 17×
• Gaines v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1990-03-06· cited 12×
• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-08· cited 12×
• McBride v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-04-03· cited 9×
• Howeth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-16· cited 5×
• Ortega v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-23· cited 5×
• Chavez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-10-20· cited 4×
• Carr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-11-12· cited 4×
• Parr v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-09-30· cited 4×

Cites

21 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×
• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Haynes v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 1,403×
• Payne v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1958-05-19· cited 840×
• Milton v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 824×
• Albrecht v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-09-25· cited 705×
• Clewis v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1967-05-08· cited 543×
• Beecher v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1967-10-23· cited 283×
• Sims v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 242×
• Farr v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-03-12· cited 79×
• Lynnwell Smith v. W. J. Estelle, Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-02-20· cited 46×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-01-10· cited 46×
• Sherman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-18· cited 42×
• Spaulding v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-03-06· cited 35×
• United States v. Pile
  Supreme Court· 1889-04-01· cited 21×
• Prine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-29· cited 20×
• Waffer v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-17· cited 17×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-07-11· cited 12×
• Akridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-05-09· cited 10×