Watson 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 “the issue of a witness’s competency is generally a question for the trial court and its ruling in that regard will not be disturbed on appeal unless an abuse of discretion can be shown”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-26· cited 177×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-01-20· cited 147×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-12-05· cited 144×
• United States v. Dale E. Graves
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-10-10· cited 97×
• De Los Santos v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2006-11-22· cited 75×
• Reyna v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1990-09-27· cited 61×
• Lewis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2004-01-07· cited 41×
• Hollinger v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1995-10-18· cited 35×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-12-06· cited 31×
• Alester D. Hogan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-10-22· cited 30×
• Christopher Ryan Robinson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2012-02-23· cited 26×
• Beavers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1982-09-15· cited 25×
• Kokes v. Angelina College
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2004-11-18· cited 21×
• Solis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1983-02-16· cited 18×
• Escamilla v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2011-03-02· cited 17×
• Kinkade v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1990-03-15· cited 12×
• Minor v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-10-12· cited 12×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2011-08-24· cited 12×
• Lawson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1985-09-12· cited 10×
• Epperson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1983-01-20· cited 3×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Clark v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-12-14· cited 208×
• Villarreal v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-12-13· cited 157×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-30· cited 71×
• Fields v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-10-24· cited 69×
• Melton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-07-09· cited 15×