Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• prosecutorial unsupported-by-the-record comment on defendant's lack of remorse may be impermissible comment on defendant's failure to testify
• prosecutorial unsupported-by-the-record comment on defendant’s lack of remorse may be impermissible comment on defendant's failure to testify
• A [The prosecutor = s] language literally indicted others than appellant individually and personally. @
• “testimony of third persons that an accused has expressed contrition is not ‘legally admissible’ evidence in mitigation when offered by an accused”
• \testimony of third persons that an accused has expressed contrition is not 'legally admissible' evidence in mitigation when offered by an accused\
• prosecutorial unsupported-by-the-record comment on defendant's lack of remorse may be impermissible comment on defendant's failure to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dinkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-02-01· cited 1,534×
• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Renteria v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-04· cited 316×
• Swallow v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-29· cited 228×
• Murphy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-21· cited 199×
• Good v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-26· cited 139×
• Dickinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 138×
• Chimney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-11-03· cited 124×
• Elkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-30· cited 116×
• Caron v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-02-10· cited 82×
• Patterson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2004-07-08· cited 76×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-06-12· cited 53×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-08-31· cited 52×
• Sauceda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1993-06-29· cited 39×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 34×
• De Los Santos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1996-02-14· cited 34×
• Cooper v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1998-01-29· cited 32×
• Gonzales v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1991-07-03· cited 29×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-12-09· cited 21×
• Orellana v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-03-10· cited 21×

Cites

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

• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• Alejandro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-11· cited 877×
• McKenzie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 454×
• Duffy v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-07· cited 182×
• Tarpley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-05-10· cited 163×
• DeRusse v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-04-11· cited 155×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-07-14· cited 143×
• Allaben v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-06-28· cited 137×
• Koller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-05· cited 132×
• McMahon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-22· cited 123×
• Tezeno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-16· cited 113×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-07-16· cited 107×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-29· cited 103×
• Hicks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-07-16· cited 90×
• Stiehl v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-13· cited 69×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-01-09· cited 60×
• Overstreet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-09-16· cited 56×
• Simmons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-23· cited 53×
• Santiago v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-09-22· cited 52×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-11-08· cited 51×