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.

• explaining that “[t]he fact that a witness cannot be positive in his identification goes to the weight of the testimony and not to its admissibility”
• observing that fact that witness cannot be positive of his or her identification goes to the weight of the testimony, not to its admissibility; therefore, lack of a positive identification is a jury issue

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cooper v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-04-21· cited 132×
• Griffin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-22· cited 81×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-11-16· cited 40×
• Martinez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-03-20· cited 39×
• Jenkins v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-07-26· cited 26×
• Valenciano v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-07-02· cited 20×
• Dears v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-03-06· cited 7×
• Prince v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1984-08-29· cited 6×
• Hannah v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-01-27· cited 4×
• Gorrer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-16· cited 1×
• Rian Hoover v. the State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2025-12-12

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ramos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-10-18· cited 159×
• Pendleton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1968-10-30· cited 64×
• Preston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-06-24· cited 25×
• Younger v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-06-17· cited 17×
• McKenzie v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-12-03· cited 15×
• Woodman v. Woodman
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1955-07-19· cited 13×
• Vanwright v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-01-07· cited 11×
• MacIas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-02-25· cited 6×