Waller v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that a jury-charge instruction on misidentification affirmative defense would have been an improper comment on the weight of the evidence
• indicating such instructions single out identification evidence and improperly magnify facts before the jury
• noting that an instruction on flight to avoid prosecution being indicative of guilt was an improper comment on the weight of the evidence.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Giesberg v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-30· cited 231×
• Atkinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-01· cited 186×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-01-23· cited 171×
• Roberson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-24· cited 119×
• Goss v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-04· cited 113×
• Adams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-02-27· cited 86×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-05-23· cited 58×
• Barnhill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-09-21· cited 42×
• Durrough v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1984-05-24· cited 20×
• Roy v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1981-12-23· cited 10×
• Burke v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-27· cited 9×
• Baldwin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1985-08-30· cited 7×
• McAllister v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2000-08-04· cited 6×
• Ortega v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1982-02-19· cited 5×
• Wortham v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-04-27· cited 5×
• Sonnier v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1989-01-11· cited 3×
• Shareef, Tacuma v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2003-10-09· cited 1×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-01-25· cited 1×
• Tyrone Akito Harris v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 1997-02-06
• Blake Taylor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-06-16

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-01-08· cited 212×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-05· cited 125×
• Riojas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-12-10· cited 79×
• Ward v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-02-27· cited 63×
• Laws v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-04-27· cited 61×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-05-23· cited 58×
• Ellingsworth v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-22· cited 46×
• Sheppard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-19· cited 43×
• Cole v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-11-30· cited 26×
• Lopez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-06-16· cited 24×
• Pringle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-19· cited 21×
• Salazar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-10-30· cited 6×
• Winn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-16· cited 6×