Wells v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “In order to effectuate the purposes of a complaint or affidavit accompanying an information, we hold that it is not necessary to inquire into the nature of the knowledge upon which an affiant bases his factual statements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-01-12· cited 127×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-12-12· cited 122×
• Adami v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-06-25· cited 85×
• Ex Parte Ward
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-01-18· cited 46×
• Aguilar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-20· cited 38×
• Pringle v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1987-04-30· cited 30×
• Holcomb v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-05-28· cited 30×
• Gholson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-01-06· cited 29×
• Knox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-19· cited 27×
• Rose v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1990-10-15· cited 24×
• Naff v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-08-14· cited 22×
• Ex Parte Garcia
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-02-16· cited 20×
• Jones v. Westergren
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-05-18· cited 15×
• State v. Caves
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-08· cited 15×
• Solis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1987-12-31· cited 11×
• Green v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1987-08-28· cited 11×
• Young v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1989-08-11· cited 9×
• S C B v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-15· cited 6×
• Peterson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-12-20· cited 3×
• Perez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-08· cited 1×