Montoya v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that trial court is “in a better position to determine whether [the defendant] was presently competent”
• stating that the standard of review for a competency determination is abuse of discretion because “those who observed the behavior of the defendant at the hearing were in a better position to determine whether [ ]he was presently competent”
• noting that statute focuses on defendant's present ability
• stating “[w]e have held that instances of depression are not an indication of incompetency and that past mental-health issues raise the issue of incompetency only if there is evidence of recent severe mental illness, at least moderate retardation, or bizarre acts by the defendant”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Turner, Albert James
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-30· cited 223×
• Lahood, Ex Parte Michael George
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-06-26· cited 98×
• Druery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2013-10-30· cited 53×
• Hobbs v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-02-23· cited 40×
• Waynetta Maria Jackson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2012-12-28· cited 37×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2010-06-16· cited 24×
• Cooper v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 2nd Dist. (Fort Worth)· 2010-12-30· cited 21×
• Francisco Javier Iniquez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2012-07-06· cited 21×
• George Ashley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2013-04-24· cited 18×
• Lindsey v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2018-02-06· cited 18×
• State v. Phillip Andrew Frias
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2016-05-27· cited 17×
• Kevin Lee Farris v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2016-09-02· cited 13×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2012-02-23· cited 8×
• Jehashiba P. Doubout v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2012-11-29· cited 5×
• Sussette Sheree Timmons v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2016-10-26· cited 5×
• Gregory John George v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2014-09-17
• Eric Hageman v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2015-06-10
• William Henry Johnson v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2015-06-12
• Michael Duane Holt v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2015-06-19
• Patrick Shane Welch v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2015-07-23

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Moore v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1999-04-21· cited 684×
• McDaniel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2003-02-26· cited 299×
• Alcott v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2001-06-27· cited 193×
• Pitonyak v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2008-04-25· cited 89×
• Lawrence v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-07-07· cited 76×
• Greene v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 2007-02-07· cited 38×
• Rojas v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 7th Dist. (Amarillo)· 2007-04-26· cited 22×