Ex Parte Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, as a result of defense counsel's limited investigation, he \was not aware … that the [defendant] suffered an abusive childhood\
• reviewing court evaluates “the evidence in aggravation and the available mitigating evidence, in order to determine how a jury might reasonably answer the mitigation special issue”
• “We have adapted the Supreme Court’s prejudice test to require a showing that there is a reasonable probability that, absent the errors, the jury would have answered the mitigation issue differently.”
• evidence that Gonzales’s father had (1) sexually and physically abused him starting at the age of six until the age of fourteen; (2) threatened to kill him on multiple occasions; and (3) molested his sister numerous times

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-06-24· cited 12×
• Buck, Duane Edward
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-11-20· cited 12×
• Tiede, Bernhardt II
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-11-26· cited 2×
• Ex parte Preyor
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2017-07-24· cited 2×
• Banessa Hope Huerta v. State of Texas
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2001-07-13
• William Steed Kelley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2003-10-22
• Lindsey Ford Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2008-09-23
• Alfonso Demetrio Rodriguez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2009-06-24
• Rebecca Ann Lee v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 2007-02-09
• Darrell Leon Asher v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-03-22
• Larry Mendoza v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-06-12
• Sylvester Earl Lofton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-03-06
• Jennings, Ex Parte Robert Mitchell
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-11-26
• Kerr, Ex Parte Ricky Eugene
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-04-01
• Ard, Ex Parte Dennis Wayne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-03-11
• Williams, Ex Parte Arthur Lee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-06-13
• Michael Cole Wallace v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2010-07-06
• Reynaldo Amaya v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2011-02-24
• Cargill, Kimberly
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-06
• West, Damon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-06-08

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Williams v. Taylor
  Supreme Court· 2000-04-18· cited 15,929×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Schriro v. Summerlin
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-24· cited 2,419×
• Rompilla v. Beard
  Supreme Court· 2005-06-20· cited 1,891×
• Muniz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-01-06· cited 1,228×
• Lambrix v. Singletary
  Supreme Court· 1997-05-12· cited 1,014×
• Chambers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-27· cited 477×
• Ramirez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-19· cited 359×
• Ex Parte Kunkle
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-02-03· cited 305×
• Boyd v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-07-03· cited 297×
• Benjamin Wai Silva v. Jeanne S. Woodford, Warden, San Quentin State Prison
  Ninth Circuit· 2002-02-22· cited 284×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-12-16· cited 257×
• Lackey v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-06-26· cited 211×
• Richardson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-12-08· cited 198×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-15· cited 198×
• Black v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-05-29· cited 196×
• John Henry Dooley, Jr. P-3111 v. George Petsock. Appeal of John Henry Dooley, Jr.
  Third Circuit· 1987-06-01· cited 186×
• Satterwhite v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1993-03-10· cited 155×