Walker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding prosecutor's question whether appellant was nervous \when he committed the offense of incest with his daughter\ required granting motion for mistrial because it was so manifestly improper and prejudicial that instructions to jury could not cure harm
• reversing 99-year sentence in murder prosecution due to injection of inadmissible, inflammatory evidence of extraneous crime and noting that jury cannot be successfully instructed not to smell a skunk

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-29· cited 371×
• Grimes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-03-27· cited 133×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-01· cited 132×
• Hardin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-03-24· cited 125×
• Abbott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2006-07-11· cited 119×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-16· cited 64×
• Yates v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1996-02-29· cited 55×
• Webb v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1992-07-29· cited 29×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1998-10-22· cited 23×
• Montes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1994-01-12· cited 15×
• Living Centers of Texas, Inc. v. Penalver
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2006-09-13· cited 13×
• Haney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1997-09-10· cited 13×
• Cooper v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-22· cited 13×
• Holland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-08· cited 11×
• Gamble v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-06-04· cited 10×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-05-07· cited 5×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-07-20· cited 4×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-05-13· cited 1×
• Francis Cherry Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-11-12
• Darrell Bernard Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1994-03-23

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Boyde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 188×
• J. Monroe Dunn v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1962-09-12· cited 119×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-07-16· cited 107×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-06-02· cited 79×
• Norman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-04· cited 76×
• Cavender v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-23· cited 56×
• Mullins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-03-21· cited 42×
• Knox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-12-06· cited 40×
• Fairris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-11-27· cited 38×
• Ruiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-11· cited 38×
• Lege v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-11-28· cited 25×
• Keener v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1957-03-27· cited 8×