Ex Parte Williams

How courts have described this case

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

• holding representation per se ineffective where attorney disbarred 2 months before trial and therefore no longer “counsel” within meaning of Sixth Amendment under Texas law which provides disbarred lawyer is deemed incompetent to represent criminal defendant as matter of law
• counsel disbarred for unauthorized claim settlement and withholding proceeds
• counsel disbarred for unauthorized claim settlement and withholding proceeds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Vanderpool
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2013-06-21· cited 156×
• In Re Barr
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-03-01· cited 64×
• Tyra Ann Whitney v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2013-02-28· cited 64×
• Trammell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2009-05-07· cited 45×
• Cantu v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-09-18· cited 44×
• Gibson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1996-05-01· cited 26×
• State v. McCroy
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2000-06-16· cited 21×
• Ledesma v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-29· cited 16×
• Williams v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 1997-02-27· cited 13×
• In re S.G.
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-20· cited 11×
• Skeen v. Kent
  Tex. App. Ct., 12th Dist. (Tyler)· 1996-12-06· cited 10×
• Cantu v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1995-04-27· cited 4×
• Commonwealth v. Jones
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-07-14· cited 3×
• Commission for Lawyer Discipline v. Sherman
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1997-04-10· cited 3×
• Matter of Sg
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1996-11-20
• Nicholas Trammell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2009-05-07
• Dale Raymond Crunk v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2009-09-17

Cites

22 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×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Arizona v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1978-02-21· cited 2,314×
• United States v. Jorn
  Supreme Court· 1971-01-25· cited 2,215×
• Heitman v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-06-26· cited 1,035×
• Narvaiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-09-23· cited 944×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-03-25· cited 484×
• Santikos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-06-03· cited 252×
• Torres v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-15· cited 178×
• United States v. Terrance Ray Taylor
  Fifth Circuit· 1991-06-03· cited 151×
• Anderson v. Wisconsin Department of Revenue
  Supreme Court· 1993-05-24· cited 117×
• McCambridge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1989-09-13· cited 84×
• Hill v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-05-05· cited 54×
• Harrison v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-04-18· cited 51×
• Erdelyan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-04-26· cited 18×
• Gary Curry v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections
  Fifth Circuit· 1976-05-20· cited 9×
• Poullard v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1992-10-14· cited 9×
• McCulloch v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1988-02-10· cited 8×
• Curry v. Estelle
  S.D. Texas· 1975-08-26· cited 7×
• Williams v. White
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-07-05· cited 6×