Whitaker v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing the factfinder is the exclusive judge of each witness’s credibility and the weight to be given each witness’s testimony
• concluding instruction was sufficient to cure any error in capital murder case when witness testified appellant “was physically and mentally abusive towards her” and “beat her up”
• determining an instruction to disregard a witness’s statement about extraneous offense was sufficient to cure error
• instruction cured harm where witness testified that capital murder defendant “beat her up before giving her an engagement ring”
• instruction to disregard witness statement about extraneous offense sufficient to cure error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-03-31· cited 568×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-16· cited 441×
• Balderas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-02· cited 297×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-06-11· cited 143×
• Cano v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-08-31· cited 136×
• Hardin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-03-24· cited 125×
• Anderson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2000-01-06· cited 97×
• Reynolds v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-09-15· cited 92×
• Herrero v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2003-12-09· cited 61×
• Cates v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2001-12-05· cited 58×
• Hudson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-11-15· cited 50×
• Castillo, Ex Parte Thomas Edward
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2015-06-03· cited 48×
• Bledsoe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2000-05-31· cited 41×
• Anderson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-02-29· cited 33×
• In re C.P.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-08-04· cited 29×
• Battles v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2001-03-28· cited 22×
• Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2002-12-11· cited 18×
• Homan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-31· cited 16×
• Hughes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-05-10· cited 14×
• Gagliardo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2002-05-08· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Clewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-31· cited 5,788×
• Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-29· cited 2,492×
• Santellan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 1,995×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,305×
• Cockrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 1,118×
• Ex Parte Torres
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-04-16· cited 1,005×
• Rhoades v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 959×
• Broxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-04· cited 738×
• Ex Parte Duffy
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-01· cited 683×
• Barnes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-02-09· cited 623×
• Kemp v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-16· cited 543×
• Losada v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-10-29· cited 505×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 297×
• Mason v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-21· cited 296×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• McGinn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-21· cited 216×
• Faust v. United States
  Federal Circuit· 1997-04-28· cited 157×