Collier 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 defendant in prosecution for capital murder knowingly and intelligently waived right to counsel when trial judge (1
• holding that the evidence of defendant's mental illness was insufficient to raise a bona fide doubt
• holding that the evidence of defendant’s mental illness was insufficient to raise a bona fide doubt
• stating that “[t]he decision to waive counsel and proceed pro se is made . . . ‘voluntarily’ if it is uncoerced”
• stating that \[t]he decision to waive counsel and proceed pro se is made . . . 'voluntarily' if it is uncoerced\
• finding valid waiver after noting'similar admonishments and stating “the trial court tried repeatedly to impress upon appellant the extreme gravity of his request to proceed pro se and the likelihood that it was a serious mistake”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Salazar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-01-17· cited 1,016×
• Feldman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-02-20· cited 654×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-04-12· cited 447×
• Rojas v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-09-23· cited 428×
• State of Texas v. Guerrero, Ex Parte Marcelino
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-06-05· cited 303×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-26· cited 299×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-11· cited 195×
• Alcott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-27· cited 193×
• Blevins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2000-04-27· cited 94×
• Clark v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2001-06-13· cited 80×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-12-13· cited 67×
• Ganther v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-02-07· cited 62×
• Smith v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2001-06-27· cited 57×
• Buster v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2004-07-30· cited 50×
• Wheat v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-01-05· cited 48×
• Gray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2008-07-02· cited 47×
• Ex Parte Potter
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2000-06-28· cited 46×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-06-29· cited 45×
• Salahud-Din v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2006-11-16· cited 44×
• Eddie v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2003-06-11· cited 44×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Ake v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1985-02-26· cited 3,332×
• Estelle v. Smith
  Supreme Court· 1981-05-18· cited 2,053×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Simmons v. South Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1994-06-17· cited 1,326×
• Rhoades v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-10-02· cited 959×
• Narvaiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 944×
• Broxton v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-10-04· cited 738×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1995-03-08· cited 294×
• Caldwell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-10-16· cited 241×
• Blankenship v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-07-18· cited 209×
• Morris v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-11· cited 93×
• Mata v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-12· cited 84×
• Leyva v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-14· cited 68×
• Johnson v. Derwinski
  Supreme Court· 1992-04-20· cited 58×
• Eldridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-20· cited 55×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-04-26· cited 55×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-01-18· cited 53×
• Booher v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1984-03-29· cited 6×