Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a defendant bears the burden of showing adequate cause for the appointment of a different attorney
• discussing impropriety of substituting retained counsel for appointed counsel for purposes of delaying administration of justice
• “The defendant must accept counsel assigned by the court unless he effectively waives right to counsel in order to represent himself, or can show adequate cause for appointment of a different attorney .”
• “the attorney who represents a criminal defendant is bound by professional duty to present all available evidence and arguments in support of the client’s positions and to contest with vigor all adverse evidence and views.”
• noting presumption against waiver of Constitutional right to counsel

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Ex Parte Duffy
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-10-01· cited 683×
• Buntion v. Harmon
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1992-04-15· cited 239×
• Burgess v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 196×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-11-16· cited 194×
• Ex Parte Ybarra
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1982-03-31· cited 157×
• Geeslin v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-07· cited 90×
• Long v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2004-07-06· cited 86×
• Watkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 2011-04-13· cited 78×
• Jordan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-10-11· cited 59×
• Fowlkes v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1988-02-10· cited 58×
• Perez v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2008-08-07· cited 55×
• Renfro v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-09-19· cited 54×
• Rivera v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2004-03-11· cited 53×
• Burks v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 1990-09-19· cited 51×
• Trevino v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-09-21· cited 51×
• Maddox v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1981-04-04· cited 50×
• Phillips v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-11-21· cited 48×
• Trammell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2009-05-07· cited 45×
• DeGroot v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2000-08-03· cited 44×
• Riggall v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-05· cited 41×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Faretta v. California
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-30· cited 11,585×
• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Gagnon v. Scarpelli
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 5,755×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Carnley v. Cochran
  Supreme Court· 1962-04-30· cited 1,897×
• Webb v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-25· cited 405×
• Ex Parte Ross
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-04-16· cited 134×
• Parker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-01-05· cited 62×
• Gonzales v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-04· cited 60×
• White v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-06-27· cited 49×
• Rodriquez v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-12-17· cited 42×
• Ex Parte Auten
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-10-07· cited 39×
• Lewis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-11-14· cited 30×
• Viges v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-04-17· cited 27×
• Ex Parte Herrin
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-05-19· cited 26×
• Rogers v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1973-01-10· cited 16×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-09-18· cited 14×