Watkins 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 even presidential pardon insufficient to prevent prior conviction from prohibiting probation eligibility
• holding as a matter of law that defendant was ineligible for probation because presidential pardon did not eliminate his prior felony conviction
• holding as a matter of law that defendant was ineligible for probation because presidential pardon did not eliminate his prior felony conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Russell v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-07-06· cited 254×
• Smith v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1984-09-19· cited 244×
• Yazdchi v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2014-04-09· cited 205×
• Little v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1988-03-23· cited 199×
• Ex Parte Renier
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1987-07-01· cited 147×
• Earhart v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1991-09-18· cited 140×
• Cuellar v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 2002-02-13· cited 135×
• Daniels v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-05-14· cited 128×
• Ex Parte Welch
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-10-28· cited 109×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1998-06-10· cited 102×
• Rovinsky v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1980-09-10· cited 50×
• Ortiz v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1983-05-04· cited 37×
• McDowell v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 6th Dist. (Texarkana)· 2007-08-28· cited 23×
• Dawkins v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 10th Dist. (Waco)· 1991-12-11· cited 23×
• Kizart v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 1991-02-13· cited 22×
• Dixon v. McMullen
  N.D. Texas· 1981-11-18· cited 19×
• Willis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-03-28· cited 19×
• Gantz v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 4th Dist. (San Antonio)· 1984-04-11· cited 16×
• Smiley v. State
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2004-01-22· cited 13×
• Samaniego v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-03-03· cited 10×

Cites

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

• Ex Parte Garland
  Supreme Court· 1867-01-14· cited 795×
• Boyd v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1892-01-04· cited 267×
• Michael Joseph Gurleski and Dorothy Villafranca v. United States of America, Frank Smith v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-01-07· cited 191×
• Schick v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1974-12-23· cited 165×
• Bustillos v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-02-17· cited 95×
• Steel v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1970-04-29· cited 61×
• Milligan v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-01· cited 60×
• Watson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-02-11· cited 56×
• McClendon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1974-05-29· cited 56×
• Shannon v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1978-06-21· cited 49×
• Ashley v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-09-23· cited 43×
• Julian J. Donald v. Sheriff Clarence Jones of Dallas County, Texas
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-07-22· cited 41×
• Richards v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1951-09-27· cited 37×
• Davis v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-12-15· cited 34×
• Penix v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1972-11-22· cited 33×
• Crisp v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1971-06-09· cited 30×
• Evans v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1976-10-13· cited 29×
• Dillard v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1949-03-16· cited 26×
• Baker v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1975-02-26· cited 24×
• Ex Parte Smith
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1977-03-23· cited 22×