Wilson 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 prosecutor’s comment about his oath to seek justice and defense counsel’s lack of oath was “manifestly improper”
• holding that the argument is considered in light of the record as a whole
• holding that permissible jury argument includes responding to opposing counsel’s arguments
• determining that prosecutor = s remarks were outside the record, manifestly improper, and prejudicial, and then conducting a harm analysis.
• finding the statement \[defense counsel] wishes ... that you turn a guilty man free ... because he doesn't have the obligation to see that justice is done\ was improper
• collecting cases and noting that where State presented no evidence that prosecutor took oath, argument injected new fact into case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Mosley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-07-01· cited 2,969×
• Motilla v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-26· cited 1,558×
• Blue v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-12-13· cited 616×
• Wilson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-08· cited 484×
• Ripkowski v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-11-07· cited 222×
• Harnett v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-11-16· cited 186×
• Cannady v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-01-05· cited 183×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2008-08-26· cited 177×
• Sandoval v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2001-10-03· cited 169×
• Phillips v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-02-26· cited 141×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2003-11-20· cited 139×
• Longoria v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-01-25· cited 134×
• Jeffley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2001-02-15· cited 102×
• Ozuna v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-08-10· cited 91×
• Roberson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2003-04-09· cited 65×
• Tyra Ann Whitney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-02-28· cited 64×
• Guy v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-10· cited 61×
• Drew v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-06-26· cited 61×
• MacIas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 1998-01-29· cited 57×
• Pope v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-03· cited 55×

Cites

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

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• In Re Murchison.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-16· cited 2,510×
• Harris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-06-28· cited 1,170×
• Alejandro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-04-11· cited 877×
• Todd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-07· cited 378×
• Moreno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-07· cited 365×
• Orona v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-05-16· cited 205×
• Boyde v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 188×
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-12-17· cited 154×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-05-20· cited 143×
• Good v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-11-26· cited 139×
• Briddle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 136×
• Gomez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-12-18· cited 128×
• Ex Parte Brandley
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-12-13· cited 126×
• Fuentes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-02-08· cited 117×
• Thompson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-19· cited 112×
• Bray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-03-29· cited 100×
• Higginbotham v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-01· cited 80×
• Burke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-22· cited 70×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-01-28· cited 66×