Spencer v. Texas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that since the publicity was twelve weeks old at the time the jury was empaneled, it was highly unlikely that it was retained in the jurors’ memories
• as applied to murder, robbery and burglary
• discussing efficacy of limiting instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Pollitt
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-08-25· cited 108×
• Hathorne v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-10-21· cited 89×
• State v. King
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-06-01· cited 87×
• Commonwealth v. Faison
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-03-25· cited 85×
• State v. Iaukea
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 83×
• Evans v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1982-12-13· cited 81×
• State v. Iaukea
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1975-07-21· cited 80×
• State v. McFerran
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1969-08-29· cited 63×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-06-28· cited 58×
• State v. Howard
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-08-03· cited 47×
• Thomas Carlton Wansley v. A. E. Slayton, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary
  Fourth Circuit· 1973-11-08· cited 43×
• Sam v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 1973-05-29· cited 40×
• Hawkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-01-09· cited 39×
• Roberts v. Scully
  S.D. New York· 1995-01-06· cited 37×
• State v. Tanzella
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-07-27· cited 36×
• Commonwealth v. Grady
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-12-28· cited 32×
• State v. Britton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-08-21· cited 29×
• People v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1973-07-16· cited 27×
• Burrell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-04-11· cited 26×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-01-31· cited 25×

Cites

1 case in this archive is cited by this case.

• Spencer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1966-11-21· cited 1,416×