Whittington 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 that the State’s argument that the jurors should think about the fact that they would “want to give [neighbors] an answer [they] [could] be proud of, that [their] friends and neighbors [could] be proud of” was a legitimate plea for law enforcement
• common knowledge that friends and neighbors will ask about jury experience
• flight is circumstance from which to infer guilt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-03-19· cited 373×
• Tichnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1980-06-10· cited 300×
• Cantrell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-05-20· cited 177×
• Lackey v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-09-15· cited 86×
• Barcenes v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1997-05-14· cited 57×
• York v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2008-05-28· cited 54×
• Fritz Whittington v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1983-05-20· cited 30×
• Meek v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-06-02· cited 26×
• Thibodeaux v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-01-20· cited 24×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-03-18· cited 18×
• Gantz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1984-04-11· cited 16×
• Lugo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1987-04-16· cited 15×
• Lowe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1984-08-23· cited 14×
• Rogers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1983-09-14· cited 10×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1998-03-25· cited 8×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-18· cited 6×
• Rushton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1985-10-10· cited 4×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-15· cited 3×
• Bernal v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-01-28· cited 2×
• Barnes, Curtis Ray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2002-10-24

Cites

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

• Burns v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-03· cited 192×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-09· cited 106×
• Ysasaga v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-05-28· cited 105×
• Holloway v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-07-16· cited 94×
• Stein v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-10-09· cited 76×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-06-26· cited 72×
• Arivette v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 71×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-03-15· cited 66×
• Pennington v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1961-03-29· cited 65×
• Thames v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-04-01· cited 60×
• Overstreet v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-09-16· cited 56×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1951-12-05· cited 46×
• Bright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-09-14· cited 38×
• McCall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-09-15· cited 38×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1939-05-17· cited 37×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-10-06· cited 35×
• Hendrix v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-11-09· cited 31×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-11-14· cited 23×
• Cox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1952-02-06· cited 21×
• Myers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-07-07· cited 18×