State v. Estes

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the failure of counsel to bring the matter of competency before the court amounted to a waiver of that issue
• finding waiver, based on Rule 36(a), of a claim that the defendant was incompetent to stand trial when the defendant obtained a competency evaluation but did not seek a competency hearing before trial
• “Counsel’s failure to insure that the matter of competency was settled before trial amounted to a waiver of that issue.”
• “Objections to improper procedure must be voiced contemporaneously to give the trial judge the opportunity to correct the error on the spot. In the absence of a contemporaneous objection, any error was waived.”
• Judge Wade and Special Judge Crawford concurring

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Shelton
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1992-10-15· cited 439×
• State v. Cornell
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1994-08-02· cited 97×
• Caldararo Ex Rel. Caldararo v. Vanderbilt University
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1990-04-25· cited 76×
• Wilcoxson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1999-10-18· cited 35×
• State of Tennessee v. Susan Jo Walls
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 2017-11-09· cited 26×
• State v. Thornton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 21×
• State v. Wall
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 1986-02-26· cited 12×
• State v. Hammock
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1993-05-06· cited 7×
• State of Tennessee v. Ricky Dean Harvey
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-06-22
• State of Tennessee v. Jeffrey Wade Osborne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-05-09
• State of Tennessee v. Jeffrey Wade Osborne
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2012-04-30
• State of Tennessee v. Michael Ortiz
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2006-02-08
• State of Tennessee v. David Robert Cook
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2004-04-05
• Hugh Peter Bondurant and Kenneth Patterson Bondurant v. Ricky Bell, Warden
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2002-02-07
• State v. Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• State v. Blackstock
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• State v. Thomas Booker
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2010-12-01
• State of Tennessee v. Micah Johnson, Alias
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2015-03-02
• State of Tennessee v. Karen Sarah Thomas
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2019-08-15
• State of Tennessee v. William Grant Morgan, Alias
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2020-06-05

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• State v. Cabbage
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-10-10· cited 3,699×
• Judge v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1976-03-19· cited 475×
• State v. Hatchett
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1978-01-16· cited 354×
• Graham v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1977-01-31· cited 198×
• Farris v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-03-30· cited 112×
• Edwards v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1976-05-17· cited 109×
• State v. Patton
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1979-12-31· cited 52×
• Montgomery v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1977-08-11· cited 36×
• State v. Gilbert
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1980-12-01· cited 36×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1972-07-31· cited 23×
• Gordon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1971-11-22· cited 22×
• Toler v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1923-12-06· cited 18×
• State v. Cherry
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 1982-07-08· cited 3×