State Ex Rel. Smith v. Blackwell

How courts have described this case

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

• invalidating statute that allowed defendants previously convicted of a drug offense to petition the trial court for resentencing
• discussing the 1936 constitutional amendment that requires the Governor to act only upon the Board's recommendation
• discussing the 1936 constitutional amendment that requires the Governor to act only upon the Board's recommendation
• while a limitation was placed upon the executive's power, the general scope of the power of clemency still rests with the Governor
• “[T]he Legislature is invested with the law-making power of the people and may define crimes and prescribe penalties.”
• “[T]he Legislature is invested with the law-making power of the people and may define crimes and prescribe penalties.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Wesbrook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-09-20· cited 2,816×
• Rose v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-15· cited 647×
• Garcia v. Dial
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-04-02· cited 442×
• Meshell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 390×
• Basaldua v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-11-02· cited 360×
• Matchett v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 343×
• McNew v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-02-15· cited 264×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-20· cited 262×
• O'BRYAN v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-26· cited 233×
• Simmons v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1997-04-02· cited 217×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-05-16· cited 210×
• Sneed v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-05-23· cited 198×
• Ex Parte Williams
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-04-11· cited 155×
• Smith v. Flack
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-22· cited 148×
• Ex Parte Renier
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 147×
• Ex Parte Giles
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-12-05· cited 138×
• State Ex Rel. Wade v. Mays
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-06· cited 107×
• Duncan v. Evans
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-29· cited 100×
• State Ex Rel. Millsap v. Lozano
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-19· cited 82×
• White v. Reiter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-10-20· cited 81×

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State Ex Rel. Wilson v. Briggs
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1961-11-29· cited 120×
• State Ex Rel. Vance v. Clawson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-03-31· cited 113×
• Whan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-06-28· cited 103×
• Snodgrass v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1912-02-14· cited 89×
• Gilderbloom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1954-05-05· cited 83×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-04-09· cited 77×
• State v. Klein
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1949-10-19· cited 61×
• Patton v. Chew
  Supreme Court· 1971-10-26· cited 52×
• Ex Parte Lefors
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-05-01· cited 37×
• Fletcher v. State
  Texas Supreme Court· 1969-03-26· cited 25×
• Young v. Young
  Texas Supreme Court· 1884-02-27· cited 22×
• Ex parte Black
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1933-03-15· cited 18×
• Castellano v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-07-22· cited 17×
• Waggoner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1955-02-02· cited 16×
• Demolli v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-05· cited 11×
• Gooch v. Fuchs
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1960-10-19· cited 5×