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.

• holding that “failure to satisfy one prong of the Strickland test negates a court’s need to consider the other prong”
• concluding that appellant's one-sentence reference to Rule 403 did not adequately brief that issue for review
• holding that autopsy photographs are generally admissible unless they depict mutilation of victim caused by autopsy itself
• holding that “failure to satisfy one prong of the Strickland test negates a court’s need to consider the other prong”
• holding that the probative value of autopsy photographs was not substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice in part because medical examiner used them in explaining the victim’s injuries
• stating that the admissibility of photographs over an objection is within the sound discretion of the trial judge

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Felix Sandoval v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-09-13· cited 166×
• Cueva v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2011-05-02· cited 110×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-10-03· cited 78×
• Nwosoucha v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-11-04· cited 62×
• Jose Isaas Herrera AKA Jose Isaas Herrera, Sr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-17· cited 52×
• Douglas Lynn Kirk v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2014-01-23· cited 52×
• Sunday Agbogwe v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2013-08-29· cited 52×
• Alami v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2011-01-20· cited 51×
• Donna Jean Dill A/K/A Donna Zill v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-10-06· cited 49×
• Gboweh Dickson George v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-08-26· cited 43×
• Kelly v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-06-17· cited 42×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-01-19· cited 42×
• Donald v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-27· cited 40×
• Youkers, William Scott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2013-05-15· cited 39×
• Ashton Joel Carmen v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-06-30· cited 38×
• Johnny Melchor MacIas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2017-11-07· cited 30×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2017-09-07· cited 30×
• Jeffrey Dean Gerron v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2016-10-26· cited 28×
• Eber Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-10-07· cited 27×
• Emmett Jeffrey Banks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2016-05-12· cited 26×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 4,543×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• Santellan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 1,995×
• Miller-El v. Dretke
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-13· cited 1,931×
• Garcia v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-10-03· cited 1,670×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-05-17· cited 1,065×
• McKoy v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-05· cited 1,045×
• Moses v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-05-21· cited 1,033×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 954×
• Narvaiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 944×
• Roberts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-04-18· cited 866×
• Threadgill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-13· cited 818×
• Long v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 804×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-10-15· cited 716×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 612×