Willingham v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• defendant failed to show any “specific connection” between witness’s alleged hope for early release from prison and his motive to testify
• defendant failed to show any \specific connection\ between witness's alleged hope for early release from prison and his motive to testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Salazar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-01-17· cited 1,016×
• Rhoades v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 959×
• Broxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-04· cited 738×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-01-29· cited 612×
• Lawton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-17· cited 507×
• Jones v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-16· cited 452×
• Reese v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-12-06· cited 384×
• Shannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-12-11· cited 220×
• McGinn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-01-21· cited 216×
• Anderson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 163×
• Irby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-16· cited 141×
• Raby v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-03-04· cited 140×
• Green v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-04· cited 133×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-10-27· cited 121×
• Gonzalez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-05-09· cited 59×
• Eldridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-20· cited 55×
• Faison v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2001-10-05· cited 36×
• Crenshaw v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-03-31· cited 33×
• Johnson, Charles Michael
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-01-25· cited 27×

Cites

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

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Matson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-16· cited 1,540×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Johnson v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1993-08-09· cited 750×
• Keeton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-04-15· cited 379×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 297×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• DeBlanc v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-11-28· cited 288×
• Hathorn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-10-28· cited 275×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-05-28· cited 257×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-07· cited 225×
• Groppi v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-25· cited 204×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-15· cited 198×
• Mitchell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-04-27· cited 177×
• Freeman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-05-18· cited 152×
• Ransom v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-20· cited 146×
• Beets v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-09-21· cited 143×
• Rivera v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-02-20· cited 134×
• Valdez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-05-24· cited 132×