Brown 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 appellant did not show present or recent clinical proof of appellant's incompetency in year in which trial was held
• overruling complaint alleging ineffectiveness of counsel for failing to request competency inquiry because there was no evidence defendant was incompetent
• refusing to speculate on whether counsel investigated competency issue in light of a silent record
• refusing to speculate on whether counsel investigated competency issue in light of a silent record
• “When the record is silent as to counsel’s trial strategy, an appellate court may not speculate about why counsel acted as he did.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Freeman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2005-04-20· cited 42×
• Hobbs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-02-23· cited 40×
• Lasiter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2009-04-15· cited 21×
• Kostura v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2009-08-20· cited 20×
• George Ashley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2013-04-24· cited 18×
• Morrow v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-02-19· cited 13×
• Lindsey v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2010-04-08· cited 8×
• Fernando Mora De La Cruz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-02-24
• Kenneth Richardson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2005-02-03
• Adam Tristan Houston v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-03-06
• Charles Anthony Grant v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2008-02-28
• Christopher Manning v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2009-11-12
• Alan Roybal Sepeda v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2003-03-12
• Manuel Ruelas Sigala v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2006-06-06
• Jeffrey Clay Lasiter v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2009-04-15
• Malcolm Donald Brown, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2006-07-12
• Mitchell, Jerome H. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-24
• Lahood, Michael George v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2005-08-09
• Tullos, Clayton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-08-15
• McGowan, Gerald Demetrius v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-01-12

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hernandez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1986-09-17· cited 3,060×
• Pate v. Robinson
  Supreme Court· 1966-03-21· cited 3,039×
• Bone v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-06-19· cited 2,687×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1994-06-01· cited 2,561×
• McFarland v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-02-21· cited 1,746×
• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-21· cited 684×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-26· cited 299×
• Valdes-Fuerte v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1994-12-07· cited 82×
• Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1998-02-11· cited 58×
• Rice v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-06-24· cited 29×
• Townsend v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1997-05-21· cited 24×