Weeks v. Scott

How courts have described this case

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

• federal court will not review a state court’s interpretation of its own state’s laws
• federal courts do not sit to review a state court’s interpretation of state law
• “[W]e defer to the state court’s interpretation of the Texas . . . statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Billy George Hughes v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice,institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-10-05· cited 337×
• Schaetzle v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2003-08-15· cited 121×
• Lynn Murphy Creel v. Gary L. Johnson, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-12-23· cited 70×
• Felix Rocha v. Rick Thaler, Director
  Fifth Circuit· 2010-11-17· cited 53×
• Charles v. Thaler
  Fifth Circuit· 2011-01-04· cited 42×
• Arnold v. Cockrell
  Fifth Circuit· 2002-10-02· cited 32×
• Lucio v. Lumpkin
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-02-09· cited 31×
• Gongora v. Quarterman
  N.D. Texas· 2007-07-30· cited 8×
• Amy Hebert v. James Rogers, Warden
  Fifth Circuit· 2018-05-10· cited 8×
• Mendez v. Quarterman
  S.D. Texas· 2009-06-04· cited 3×
• Batiste v. Quarterman
  S.D. Texas· 2008-07-31· cited 1×
• Rose v. Johnson
  S.D. Texas· 2001-03-26· cited 1×
• Creel v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-01-14
• Hughes v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1999-10-27
• Timothy Herring v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-01-16
• Herring, Timothy
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2015-04-02

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Estelle v. McGuire
  Supreme Court· 1991-12-04· cited 8,719×
• Flanagan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 221×
• Benny Dale Alexander v. O.L. McCotter Director, of Texas Department of Corrections, Respondent
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-09-30· cited 181×
• Dennis Glick v. Dr. F.M. Henderson
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-08-25· cited 179×
• Christophersen v. Allied-Signal Corp.
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-08-15· cited 146×
• Jerry Carlo Moreno v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections, and Jim Mattox, Attorney General of the State of Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-10-14· cited 108×
• Hill v. McKaskle
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 67×
• United States v. Elizabeth Nichols Chagra
  Fifth Circuit· 1986-12-18· cited 60×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-15· cited 44×
• Rocha v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-13· cited 42×
• Thomas v. Atascadero Unified School District
  C.D. California· 1987-06-19· cited 40×
• Staley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1994-08-30· cited 30×
• United States v. Franklin Monroe Jokel
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-08-10· cited 19×
• Weeks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1992-10-14· cited 18×
• Scroggins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1990-12-05· cited 17×
• Johnny Ray Seaton v. Raymond K. Procunier, Director of Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1985-01-11· cited 16×
• State v. Haines
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1989-10-31· cited 14×