Abdnor v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• reiterating that indigency is determined by a defendant's financial status at the time of appeal, not at the time of trial
• outside sources such as relatives or even employers may not be considered unless they are legally bound to pay for the defendant’s appellate expenses
• “It is well established that due diligence requires an appellant to timely file a pauper’s oath in order to secure a free statement of facts.”
• “[N]o rigid standard exists for determining indigency on appeal,” but the “issue, of course, to be decided is that of the financial status at the time of the appeal...”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-03-31· cited 375×
• Saenz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-11-25· cited 70×
• Rosales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-12-09· cited 63×
• Snoke v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 63×
• Abdnor v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-15· cited 48×
• Gray v. Robinson
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-01-13· cited 47×
• Rogers v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1990-08-16· cited 46×
• Newman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-06· cited 38×
• Bell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1989-02-16· cited 34×
• Sparkman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2000-08-09· cited 29×
• In Re Pruitt
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1999-12-09· cited 24×
• Scott v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-10-02· cited 22×
• Tuck v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2007-02-07· cited 21×
• Nelson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1999-11-17· cited 21×
• Gray v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-06-26· cited 21×
• Easily v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-02-13· cited 16×
• Sammy Ray Escobar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2003-11-17· cited 15×
• Turner v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2002-04-24· cited 12×
• In Re Luebe
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1999-01-21· cited 12×
• Abdnor v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-08-16· cited 11×