Wright v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• overruling objection to prosecutor’s comments concerning parents’ willingness to sacrifice their own life for their child’s because it was an appeal to common knowledge
• to sway jury to ignore duty to deliberate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Temple v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-12-21· cited 124×
• Klapesky v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-05-05· cited 71×
• Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-07-26· cited 67×
• Brennan v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2009-04-01· cited 50×
• Espinosa v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-05-30· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 41×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 2010-11-08· cited 40×
• Susan Lucille Wright v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-06-26· cited 27×
• Runnels v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-03-09· cited 12×
• Henricks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 11th Dist. (Eastland)· 2009-06-11· cited 10×
• Rodolfo Nino Aleman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2016-06-22· cited 3×
• Sarah Jean Clement v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-07-14· cited 3×
• Richard Runnels, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2006-03-09
• Prudencio Vazquez Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2007-03-01
• James Preston Francis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-07-20
• Terry Hackler v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2006-06-08
• Celeste Beard Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2006-03-23
• Gregory Michael Klapesky v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-04-16
• Rafael Jose Guerra v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-08-14
• Roy Lee Fox v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-11-13

Cites

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

• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 7,264×
• Salazar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-01-17· cited 1,016×
• Threadgill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-13· cited 818×
• Rezac v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-01-17· cited 732×
• Reyes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-03· cited 695×
• Osbourn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-12-18· cited 649×
• Guidry v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-12-15· cited 633×
• Arthur Wayne Carson, Cross-Appellee v. Officer Polley, Cross-Appellants
  Fifth Circuit· 1982-11-16· cited 566×
• Cook v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-04-07· cited 564×
• Cohn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 529×
• Erazo v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-06-16· cited 519×
• Heidelberg v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-09-15· cited 488×
• Nenno v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-24· cited 479×
• Wallace v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-05-21· cited 440×
• Allridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-05-11· cited 429×
• Garza v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-01-28· cited 397×
• Reese v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-12-06· cited 384×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-04-27· cited 327×
• Manning v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-09-10· cited 315×
• Hayes v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-09-11· cited 282×