Williams v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• deciding whether the unresponsive testimony that a marriage was annulled when the defendant “got sent to the penitentiary” was reversible error
• concluding there was no reasonable possibility that evidence of the accused’s prior incarceration affected the verdict
• discussing a State witness’s unresponsive answer, which inadvertently placed information prejudicial to the defendant before the jury
• noting the general rule that an instruction to disregard is sufficient to cure prejudice from a nonresponsive answer given by a State’s witness
• where prejudicial information is inadvertently placed before a jury through a witness’s unresponsive answer, the general rule is that an instruction by the trial judge to the jury to disregard such answer is sufficient to cure harm
• where prejudicial information is inadvertently placed before a jury through a witness's unresponsive answer, the general rule is that an instruction by the trial judge to the jury to disregard such answer is sufficient to cure harm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gardner v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-03-25· cited 509×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 399×
• Nobles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-10· cited 267×
• Hughes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-06-23· cited 254×
• Tennard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-01-30· cited 232×
• Pyles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-01· cited 138×
• Jacobs v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-11· cited 133×
• Rougeau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 100×
• Richards v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1996-04-03· cited 59×
• Abbott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 1987-03-24· cited 32×
• Russell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-06· cited 24×
• Garcia v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1992-10-14· cited 23×
• Hill v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1991-10-10· cited 20×
• Kirkland v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-28· cited 17×
• Robinette v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 1991-09-19· cited 15×
• Mathews v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-03-07· cited 14×
• Anguiano v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-22· cited 13×
• White v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1995-11-22· cited 12×
• Moore v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1984-02-15· cited 9×
• Waldo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1986-02-28· cited 6×

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Clemons v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-07-16· cited 105×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-03-18· cited 98×
• Lyles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-06-13· cited 63×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-12-16· cited 42×