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 in absence of evidence that jury was actually confused, we assume jury would follow court's instructions as given
• explaining that courts treat alleged errors regarding denials of motions for directed verdicts as challenges to legal sufficiency of evidence
• treating challenge to denial of motion for directed verdict as challenge to sufficiency of evidence
• finding prospective juror’s answer on questionnaire that “agreed with the proposition that she does not believe in capital punishment, but it is not practically advisable to abolish it” to be a race-neutral reason for peremptory strike
• Article 37.071’s requirement that ten or more jurors must agree in order to answer certain special issues “no” held not to violate the Unites States Constitution
• appellant waived complaint because he did not object to court reporter’s failure to take notes while videotape was played and he did not object at any stage of trial to court reporter’s failure to record his videotaped statement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• King v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 2,567×
• Ladd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-06· cited 1,900×
• Mata v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-06-06· cited 849×
• Reyna v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-06-29· cited 776×
• Colburn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-02-25· cited 754×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-12-16· cited 695×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-21· cited 684×
• Russeau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-06-29· cited 582×
• Lucio v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2011-09-14· cited 574×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-03-31· cited 375×
• Thrift v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-11-02· cited 361×
• Luquis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-04-10· cited 343×
• Balderas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-11-02· cited 297×
• Bargas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-05-13· cited 283×
• McQuarters v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2001-09-20· cited 283×
• Trevino v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-26· cited 279×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-28· cited 276×
• Coggin v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2003-10-09· cited 215×
• Broderick v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2000-10-26· cited 200×
• Franks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2002-10-24· cited 191×

Cites

73 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×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Neil v. Biggers
  Supreme Court· 1972-12-06· cited 7,056×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Purkett v. Elem
  Supreme Court· 1995-05-15· cited 3,008×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-29· cited 1,851×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Mills v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 1,392×
• McKoy v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1990-03-05· cited 1,045×
• Tuilaepa v. California
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-30· cited 983×
• Alvarado v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-15· cited 953×
• Narvaiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 944×
• Curry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-11-22· cited 826×
• Montana v. Egelhoff
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-13· cited 816×
• Broxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-04· cited 738×
• Penry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-06-07· cited 713×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-25· cited 672×
• Rose v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-06-15· cited 647×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-07· cited 564×