Woods v. Texas

Woods v. Texas Bell v. Texas Brooks v. Texas Green v. Texas Demouchette v. Texas and Barefoot v. Texas

Woods v. Texas, 453 U.S. 913 (1981)

Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Decided: June 29, 1981
Docket: Nos. 79-721; No. 79-5199; No. 79-5587; No. 79-6081; No. 79-6608; No. 80-5320
Judges: Brennan, Marshall
Citations: 453 U.S. 913101 S. Ct. 3146

Cited by 66 4 descriptions by later courts

Opinion of the Court

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Ct. Crim. App. Tex. Certiorari denied. Reported below: No. 79-721, 569 S. W. 2d 901 ; No. 79-5199, 582 S. W. 2d 800 ; No. 79-5587, 599 S. W. 2d 312 ; No. 79-6081, 587 S. W. 2d 167 ; No. 79-6608, 591 S. W. 2d 488 ; No. 80-5320, 596 S. W. 2d 875 .

Dissent — Brennanmarshall

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Justice Brennan and Justice Marshall,

dissenting.

Adhering to our views that the death penalty is in all circumstances cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U. S. 153, 227, 231 (1976), we would grant certiorari and vacate the death sentences in these cases.

How later courts describe this case

Explanatory parentheticals written by citing courts — 4 in all; the most informative distinct ones are shown.

(during the voir dire examination, prospective jurors initially expressed a bias but after the law was explained to them they indicated they could follow the law)

Trevino v. State, 815 S.W.2d 592 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)
(instructive to consider voir dire examination)

Black v. State, 816 S.W.2d 350 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)

Cited by 66 cases

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Relies on it most ⓘ

Wilkerson v. State726 S.W.2d 542 (Tex. Crim. App. 1986)
Ramirez v. State815 S.W.2d 636 (Tex. Crim. App. 1991)
Draughon v. State831 S.W.2d 331 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992)
Richardson v. State744 S.W.2d 65 (Tex. Crim. App. 1987)
Charlie Brooks, Jr. v. W.J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections697 F.2d 586 (5th Cir. 1982)
Crawford v. State685 S.W.2d 343 (Tex. App.—Amarillo 1985)

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Gutierrez v. Dretke392 F. Supp. 2d 802 (W.D. Tex. 2005)
Hogue v. Johnson131 F.3d 466 (5th Cir. 1997)
Schutz v. State957 S.W.2d 52 (Tex. Crim. App. 1997)

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Authorities cited 7

Depth	Case	Cited by
	Gregg v. Georgia, 428 U.S. 153 (1976)	6,081
	Barefoot v. State, 596 S.W.2d 875 (Tex. Crim. App. 1980)	95
	Bell v. State, 582 S.W.2d 800 (Tex. Crim. App. 1979)	80
	Woods v. State, 569 S.W.2d 901 (Tex. Crim. App. 1978)	47
	Brooks v. State, 599 S.W.2d 312 (Tex. Crim. App. 1979)	42
	Demouchette v. State, 591 S.W.2d 488 (Tex. Crim. App. 1979)	41
	Green v. State, 587 S.W.2d 167 (Tex. Crim. App. 1979)	23

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