Fields v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that there was no merit to appellant’s claim that his appellate attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel by deciding not to pursue a meritless claim that trial counsel was ineffective
• “[B]ecause we conclude that all of Fields’ ineffective assistance of trial counsel claims fail, we also conclude that all of Fields’ ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claims fail.”
• “When an ineffective assistance of appellate counsel claim is based on appellate counsel’s failure to raise an ineffective assistance of trial counsel claim, the appellant must first show that trial counsel was ineffective.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-12-29· cited 58×
• Bobo v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-08-22· cited 52×
• Pearson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2017-03-22· cited 37×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2009-05-14· cited 36×
• Arredondo v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-08-14· cited 23×
• State v. Miller
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-08-21· cited 22×
• Frank Duane Lussier v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-09-10· cited 18×
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-02-28· cited 15×
• Nunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-07-24· cited 14×
• Brocks v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-07-31· cited 14×
• Tracy Alan Zornes v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-06-15· cited 14×
• Derrick Trevor Griffin v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-08-03· cited 14×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-09-09· cited 13×
• Brooks v. State
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2017-05-15· cited 4×
• Berry Alexander Davis, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2025-01-08
• Joshua Chiazor Ezeka, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2025-02-05
• Cedric Lamont Berry v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2026-04-08

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• State v. Knaffla
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-06-25· cited 418×
• Roby v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1996-04-26· cited 235×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1986-08-15· cited 123×
• State v. Pilcher
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1991-07-26· cited 82×
• State v. Lahue
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-10-29· cited 72×
• Torres v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-11-18· cited 44×
• State v. Fields
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-05-20· cited 37×
• Russell v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-05-01· cited 35×
• Opsahl v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-03-09· cited 25×
• State v. Barnes
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-04-27· cited 18×
• Zenanko v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-11-24· cited 13×