Leake v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “[C]ounsel has no duty to pursue a meritless issue.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Vang
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2014-05-07· cited 135×
• Andersen v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-03-20· cited 88×
• State v. Hokanson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-10-03· cited 65×
• Randy Leeroyal Swaney v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-07-13· cited 8×
• State of Minnesota v. Jamal L. Smith
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2024-07-24· cited 5×
• State of Iowa v. Aaron Lance Sams
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2017-05-03
• Leake v. Minnesota
  Supreme Court· 2010-02-22
• Cedric Lamont Berry v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2026-04-08

Cites

16 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Apprendi v. New Jersey
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 28,372×
• State v. Knaffla
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-06-25· cited 418×
• In Re Alvernaz
  California Supreme Court· 1992-06-22· cited 381×
• People v. Curry
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1997-09-18· cited 197×
• Leake v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-08-16· cited 146×
• Gates v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1987-01-09· cited 133×
• Opsahl v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-04-08· cited 130×
• State v. Rhodes
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2003-03-20· cited 119×
• State v. Leake
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-06-23· cited 100×
• State v. Gassler
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-09-03· cited 94×
• Williams v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1992-04-27· cited 57×
• State v. Rainer
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1993-07-16· cited 47×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-07-30· cited 43×
• Schneider v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-01-04· cited 35×
• Sanchez-Diaz v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-12-24· cited 30×