Watkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that State used disproportionate number of strikes against African-Americans when it used 55% of its strikes to exclude 88% of African-American's on the venire
• holding that, reviewing record in its entirety, prosecutor’s race-neutral reason was not a pretext where State applied this reason to strike black veniremember and most but not all similarly situated non-black veniremembers
• holding that, reviewing record in its entirety, prosecutor's race-neutral reason was not a pretext where State applied this reason to strike black veniremember and most but not all similarly situated non-black veniremembers
• holding appellant failed to meet burden of persuasion that State’s explanation was incredible or disingenuous, after engaging in comparative analysis of other venire members
• noting that use of 55% of peremptory strikes to exclude 88% of black veniremembers was clearly disproportionate
• noting that use of 55% of peremptory strikes to exclude 88% of black veniremembers was clearly disproportionate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Lenix
  California Supreme Court· 2008-07-24· cited 283×
• Colone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2019-05-08· cited 146×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-12-07· cited 92×
• Nieto v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-05-09· cited 85×
• Reed v. Quarterman
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-01-12· cited 83×
• Grant v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-11-17· cited 66×
• Blackman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-12-11· cited 53×
• Leadon v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2010-01-14· cited 42×
• Moore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-10-15· cited 39×
• Greer v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2009-06-09· cited 27×
• Finley v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-08-15· cited 25×
• Benjamin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2013-12-20· cited 16×
• State v. Terry Golding
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-07-14· cited 14×
• Adair v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-03-30· cited 13×
• Robert Nathaniel Jones v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-10-01· cited 13×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-09-07· cited 9×
• James Blackman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2012-10-11· cited 8×
• Jacobs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-08-07· cited 7×
• James Allen Bundage v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-07-30· cited 6×
• Christopher Charles Meadows v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-11-15· cited 5×

Cites

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

• Miller-El v. Cockrell
  Supreme Court· 2003-02-25· cited 27,550×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Hernandez v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-28· cited 4,168×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• Miller-El v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-13· cited 1,931×
• Rylander v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-03-26· cited 1,786×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-01-05· cited 641×
• Adanandus v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-16· cited 505×
• Herron v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-09· cited 482×
• Tompkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-10-07· cited 307×
• Keeton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-04-06· cited 298×
• Whitsey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-09-19· cited 278×
• Mata v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-06· cited 258×
• Vargas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-24· cited 235×
• Gibson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-09-15· cited 192×
• Young v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-01· cited 177×
• Ford v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 174×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-05-22· cited 169×
• Sparkman v. Maxwell
  Texas Supreme Court· 1975-02-19· cited 91×
• Linscomb v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-11· cited 63×

Other cases named Watkins v. State

344 other CourtListener records share this case name; the 50 most cited are listed.

• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1976-10-05· cited 117×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1978-04-04· cited 90×
• Watkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2011-04-13· cited 78×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1983-03-17· cited 63×
• Watkins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1995-07-03· cited 56×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-09-20· cited 52×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-10-03· cited 49×
• Watkins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1965-06-02· cited 47×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1984-04-10· cited 42×
• Watkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 2012-08-16· cited 42×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2003-05-19· cited 41×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-04-28· cited 40×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-03-19· cited 40×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-10-08· cited 40×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 2010-04-01· cited 37×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-03-05· cited 33×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1991-07-24· cited 32×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1992-12-02· cited 29×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1990-03-16· cited 29×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2011-06-13· cited 29×
• Watkins v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1917-12-15· cited 29×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-04-22· cited 26×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-05-22· cited 25×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1989-02-17· cited 23×
• Watkins v. State
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1980-12-17· cited 21×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1994-11-28· cited 21×
• Watkins v. State
  Alabama Court of Appeals· 1953-02-17· cited 21×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1991-05-21· cited 21×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1992-04-01· cited 21×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1989-04-14· cited 19×
• Watkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-11-06· cited 19×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1986-10-14· cited 19×
• Watkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1987-12-15· cited 18×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1988-09-21· cited 18×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1879-11-15· cited 18×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2001-01-08· cited 17×
• Watkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1882-10-15· cited 17×
• Watkins v. State
  Mississippi Supreme Court· 1972-04-25· cited 16×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1979-04-19· cited 16×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1973-03-13· cited 16×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1994-10-12· cited 16×
• Watkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-02-25· cited 15×
• Watkins v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1977-03-09· cited 15×
• Watkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2009-03-09· cited 15×
• Watkins v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 1984-10-12· cited 15×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2002-01-22· cited 14×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1993-03-11· cited 14×
• Watkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-01-31· cited 14×
• Watkins v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-02· cited 14×
• Watkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 1992-09-30· cited 13×