Wood 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 under Melendez-Diaz, autopsy report involving death that was suspected homicide was testimonial statement and that medical examiner who wrote report was witness within meaning of Confrontation Clause
• holding that, while not all autopsy reports are testimonial, the subject autopsy report was testimonial where the circumstances were suspicious and police suspected homicide
• holding that an autopsy report was testimonial when it was reasonable to assume that the pathologist “understood that the report containing her findings and opinions would be used prosecutorially”
• holding that an autopsy report was testimonial when it was reasonable to assume thatthe pathologist “understood that the report containing her findings and opinions would be used prosecutorially”
• holding the autopsy report was testimonial where police suspected the death was a homicide
• holding the autopsy report was testimonial where police suspected the death was a homicide

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Maxwell
  Ohio Supreme Court· 2014-03-20· cited 335×
• United States v. James and Mallay
  Second Circuit· 2013-03-28· cited 147×
• Cuesta-Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2010-10-12· cited 101×
• United States v. Ignasiak
  Eighth Circuit· 2012-01-19· cited 87×
• United States v. Rose
  Fifth Circuit· 2009-11-06· cited 79×
• Marshall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Oklahoma· 2010-05-13· cited 64×
• Hensley v. Roden
  First Circuit· 2014-06-20· cited 60×
• Jose Isaas Herrera AKA Jose Isaas Herrera, Sr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-17· cited 52×
• Theadric Lee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2013-12-19· cited 37×
• State of West Virginia Terry Allen Blevins
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2013-05-20· cited 35×
• Black v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2012-01-12· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Brown
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2016-05-10· cited 27×
• Martinez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2010-03-24· cited 25×
• Gregory Everett Mitchell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2013-12-04· cited 25×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2010-08-05· cited 23×
• State v. Gonzales
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2012-02-16· cited 18×
• Grey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2009-11-04· cited 16×
• David Len Moulton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2011-10-19· cited 16×
• State v. Jaramillo
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 2011-11-23· cited 15×
• Michele Marie Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-12-22· cited 15×

Cites

32 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×
• Crawford v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 2004-03-08· cited 14,756×
• Guzman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-09-24· cited 6,556×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-02-09· cited 6,445×
• Clewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-01-31· cited 5,788×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-10-18· cited 4,543×
• Clayton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-10-10· cited 4,127×
• Cain v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-12-18· cited 3,887×
• State v. Ross
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-11-29· cited 3,729×
• Carmouche v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-01-26· cited 3,205×
• Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2009-06-25· cited 2,882×
• Rousseau v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-24· cited 1,521×
• State v. Dixon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-06-14· cited 810×
• Goodman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-11-21· cited 682×
• Valle v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-07-02· cited 628×
• Wall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2006-01-18· cited 566×
• Hampton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-06-22· cited 448×
• Orona v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1992-08-12· cited 406×
• Hampton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-07-02· cited 297×
• De La Paz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-18· cited 256×