Lee v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• judge who presided over jury trial was disqualified, and judgment of conviction void, where he previously served as chief prosecutor who evaluated case and sent defense counsel letter recommending life sentence based on defendant’s “deplorable” record
• judge who presided over jury trial was disqualified, and judgment of conviction void, where he previously served as chief prosecutor who evaluated case and sent defense counsel letter recommending life sentence based on defendant’s “deplorable” record

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Gamez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-09-23· cited 257×
• McElwee v. McElwee
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1995-11-15· cited 231×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1997-10-15· cited 149×
• Charles Edward Jenkins v. Donald E. Bordenkircher, Superintendent, Kentucky State Penitentiary
  Sixth Circuit· 1979-12-19· cited 75×
• Gulf Maritime Warehouse Co. v. Towers
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 1993-07-01· cited 64×
• Ex Parte Miller
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-09-25· cited 48×
• Ex Parte Vivier
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1985-11-20· cited 39×
• Whitehead v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2008-06-25· cited 38×
• In the Matter of K.E.M., Juvenile
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-10-24· cited 27×
• Lone Star Industries, Inc. v. Ater
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1992-12-30· cited 24×
• Ricondo v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1983-04-13· cited 22×
• Lopez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2001-11-01· cited 19×
• Metts v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2016-10-19· cited 14×
• Gamez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1983-03-30· cited 13×
• Curtis v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1988-12-22· cited 10×
• Monroe v. Blackmon
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1997-05-15· cited 10×
• Lane v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1982-05-19· cited 9×
• Gamez v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-11-02· cited 9×
• Houston General Insurance Co. v. Ater
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 1992-12-30· cited 6×
• McClure v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-07-14· cited 5×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hathorne v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-10-21· cited 89×
• Postal Mutual Indemnity Co. v. Ellis
  Texas Supreme Court· 1943-03-24· cited 44×
• Koll v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1941-11-05· cited 37×
• Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America v. McGee
  Texas Supreme Court· 1962-04-04· cited 29×
• Ex Parte Washington
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1969-06-18· cited 29×
• Holifield v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-07-07· cited 29×
• Muro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1965-02-03· cited 21×
• Ex Parte McDonald
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-07-14· cited 21×
• Carter v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-06-27· cited 20×
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-12-13· cited 19×
• Prince v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1952-10-29· cited 18×
• Morgan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-01-16· cited 18×
• Wilks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1889-03-16· cited 9×
• Zussman v. Lake-Spiro-Shurman, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1970-06-25· cited 1×