Frangias v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that courts must not second-guess informed strategic or tactical decisions made by counsel during trial but instead must indulge strong presumption that counsel’s conduct falls within wide range of reasonable professional assistance
• noting that abándonment of alternative ways of implementing a particular trial strategy is reasonable only if trial counsel undertook reasonable efforts to pursue such alternatives and brought a professionally appropriate level of knowledge and skill to bear before choosing to abandon them
• noting even single instance of counsel’s error that is egregious and has seriously deleterious impact on balance of representation may rise to level of deficient performance
• noting that defendants are not entitled to error-free representation
• cautioning courts against second-guessing trial counsel’s “informed strategic or tactical decisions”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lahood, Ex Parte Michael George
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-06-26· cited 98×
• Dennis Davis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2013-08-30· cited 36×
• Terrence Brent McNeil v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2014-11-20· cited 25×
• Kimberly Clark Saenz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2014-01-22· cited 6×
• Frangias v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2013-09-26· cited 5×
• Max Elliott Ray v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-08-26
• Leonard Cox v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-08-26
• Rex Allen Stockton v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-08-28
• Michael Ray Chandler, Jr. v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-10-01
• Courtney Trapp v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-10-17
• Alejandro Munoz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-11-14
• Stephen Hollar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-08-14
• Omar Terrell Nelson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-06-18
• Clifford Bart Dunbar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-06-13
• Fernando Cruz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2014-05-08
• James Arthur Brown v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2015-05-12
• Quinten McIntyre v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2014-11-20
• Gilbert Sanchez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2014-06-20
• Daniel Wayne Tovar v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2016-03-08
• Karl Lee Wiggins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2016-06-30

Cites

17 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Wiggins v. Smith, Warden
  Supreme Court· 2003-06-26· cited 5,961×
• Goodspeed v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-04-06· cited 1,864×
• Janecka v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1996-11-27· cited 587×
• Charles v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2004-10-06· cited 533×
• Ex Parte Welborn
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1990-03-14· cited 509×
• Vasquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-01-15· cited 391×
• Aguilar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-06-16· cited 272×
• Keehn v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2009-03-25· cited 226×
• Ex Parte Briggs
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2005-12-16· cited 184×
• Ex Parte Zepeda
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-12-04· cited 156×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-07-24· cited 98×
• Fuller v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2012-03-28· cited 68×
• Jasso v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1985-10-23· cited 28×
• Langston v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1967-06-14· cited 10×
• Collins v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1887-10-29· cited 9×
• John Frangias v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-04-19· cited 5×