Spence 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 that there is “no requirement in our law that all of the statutory elements of an offense must be proven before a prior unadjudicated extraneous offense may be admitted at the punishment phase”
• explaining that there is ―no requirement in our law that all of the statutory elements of an offense must be proven before a prior unadjudicated extraneous offense may be admitted at the punishment phase‖
• rejecting, after trial and sentencing, capital-murder defendant's claim of pre-indictment delay; defendant failed to prove \intentional delay that was designed to give the State a tactical advantage over him\ and failed to show what harm he suffered as a result
• rejecting, after trial and sentencing, capital-murder defendant’s claim of pre- indictment delay; defendant failed to prove “intentional delay that was designed to give the State a tactical advantage over him” and failed to show what harm he suffered as a result
• no error in denying motion to dismiss the indictment because while Spence showed preindictment delay, he failed “to show that it was intentional delay designed to give the State a tactical advantage over him”
• \statutory warnings are not `formal charges'\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• EI Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Robinson
  Texas Supreme Court· 1996-07-08· cited 1,699×
• Marin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 1,480×
• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Prystash v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 668×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 612×
• Ibarra v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-20· cited 582×
• Adanandus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 505×
• Hacker, Anthony Wayne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-01-16· cited 484×
• Matchett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 343×
• Wilkerson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-03-23· cited 286×
• State of Texas v. Wilson, Carolyn Sue Krizan
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-12-14· cited 221×
• Howard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1997-06-26· cited 204×
• Powell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-04-12· cited 177×
• Christophersen v. Allied-Signal Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-08-15· cited 146×
• David Wayne Spence v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1996-03-29· cited 135×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-12· cited 127×
• Howard v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2003-07-24· cited 116×
• State v. Terrazas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-02-04· cited 116×
• Woolridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-02-26· cited 98×
• Clarke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-09-24· cited 91×

Cites

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

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• United States v. Wade
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 8,442×
• Stovall v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1967-06-12· cited 6,066×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Barefoot v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 4,617×
• Frye v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1923-12-03· cited 4,204×
• United States v. Marion
  Supreme Court· 1971-12-20· cited 3,756×
• United States v. Lovasco
  Supreme Court· 1977-10-03· cited 2,170×
• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• United States v. Owens
  Supreme Court· 1988-02-23· cited 997×
• Zillender v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-11-09· cited 440×
• Quinones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-09· cited 312×
• Burdine v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-15· cited 284×
• Hankins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-01· cited 274×
• State v. Asherman
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-07-17· cited 255×
• Marquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-01-14· cited 246×
• Beathard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-03-08· cited 227×
• Dugard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-04-17· cited 179×
• Olson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-11-26· cited 176×
• Sireci v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1986-06-30· cited 144×

Other cases named Spence v. State

65 other CourtListener records share this case name; the 50 most cited are listed.

• Spence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-10-12· cited 93×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-09-15· cited 42×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1983-08-10· cited 40×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1984-03-05· cited 29×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1910-05-12· cited 27×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2007-04-10· cited 23×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-11-13· cited 22×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1977-02-22· cited 18×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1982-07-06· cited 15×
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-04-14· cited 14×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-02· cited 13×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1991-01-08· cited 13×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1957-06-07· cited 12×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1931-07-13· cited 12×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2015-07-27· cited 11×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1960-06-29· cited 10×
• Spence v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-09-10· cited 10×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1917-05-11· cited 9×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1999-12-30· cited 8×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1982-04-08· cited 8×
• Spence v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2019-05-16· cited 8×
• Spence v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1846-12-05· cited 8×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1960-12-15· cited 7×
• Spence v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1981-12-21· cited 6×
• Spence v. State
  New York State Court of Claims· 1936-06-12· cited 6×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2009-01-16· cited 5×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1975-01-28· cited 5×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1850-01-15· cited 5×
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-01-24· cited 4×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1951-01-26· cited 4×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1958-01-16· cited 4×
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-08-14· cited 4×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2019-12-23· cited 4×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2008-01-29· cited 3×
• Spence v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1979-09-10· cited 3×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1936-01-10· cited 2×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1930-01-13· cited 1×
• Spence v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1980-02-05· cited 1×
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-11-04· cited 1×
• Spence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2003-09-04· cited 1×
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-03-09
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-12-04
• Spence v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2007-10-04
• Spence v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 2007-08-08
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2010-12-22
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-08-01
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-12-23
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1946-11-29
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-04-09
• Spence v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-05-09