Sparks v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “The prejudicial nature of same-transaction contextual evidence rarely renders such evidence inadmissible so long as it sets the stage for the jury’s comprehension of the whole criminal transaction.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Howland v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1998-03-12· cited 106×
• Moreno v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-08-31· cited 102×
• Armstrong v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-11-26· cited 96×
• Garza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-11-03· cited 35×
• Castaldo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2000-11-01· cited 13×
• Miller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1999-07-30· cited 8×
• Meadows v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1999-07-22· cited 5×
• Carmen Garza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1999-05-12
• James Heard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2004-11-18
• Seldon Wayne Colvin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2013-06-12
• McDonald, Neiman Laquinta v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2013-10-23
• Elenilson Flores Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2016-09-08
• Mario Alberto Alaniz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2015-01-15
• Jeremy Nathaniel Miller v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2018-09-26

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Clewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-31· cited 5,788×
• Geesa v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-11-06· cited 2,157×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-29· cited 1,851×
• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Bigby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-11-02· cited 509×
• Camacho v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-13· cited 440×
• Beardsley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-21· cited 430×
• Lockhart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-12-02· cited 211×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-12-08· cited 198×
• Alba v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-28· cited 195×
• Spinner v. County of Los Angeles
  Supreme Court· 1995-10-02· cited 143×
• Volges v. Resolution Trust Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1995-06-26· cited 68×
• Mock v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1993-05-12· cited 65×
• Nolen v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-26· cited 45×
• Blakeney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1995-11-15· cited 43×
• Houston v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1992-06-17· cited 35×
• Nolen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-29· cited 15×
• Duckworth v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-07-08· cited 4×