Riley 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 township was bound to the terms of a contract that was executed in accordance with its statutory authority
• recognizing courts are not required to reconsider previously rejected claims that have been refined or restated
• rejecting ineffective assistance claim because its “underlying” errors were rejected on direct appeal
• fact that co-defendant, who was the actual killer, received lesser penalty as a result of a plea bargain considered in mitigation
• \Justice does not require that an issue that has been previously considered and rejected be revisited simply because the claim is refined or restated.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Morgan v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-15· cited 1,584×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-12-21· cited 248×
• Outten v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-11-19· cited 138×
• James William Riley v. Stanley W. Taylor M. Jane Brady
  Third Circuit· 2001-12-28· cited 133×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-03-03· cited 117×
• Shelton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-01-05· cited 90×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-10· cited 86×
• Gattis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-09-08· cited 68×
• State v. Wright
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1994-08-12· cited 59×
• Skinner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-05-11· cited 55×
• James William Riley v. Stanley W. Taylor M. Jane Brady , James W. Riley
  Third Circuit· 1995-07-27· cited 53×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-11-17· cited 51×
• State v. Reyes
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-01-19· cited 45×
• Sykes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-01-30· cited 26×
• MacDonald v. Delaware
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-07-27· cited 24×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-05-24· cited 21×
• Moorhead v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-03-17· cited 16×
• Flamer v. Chaffinch
  D. Delaware· 1993-06-30· cited 11×
• Riley v. Snyder
  D. Delaware· 1993-12-20· cited 10×
• State v. Rodriguez
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1994-12-29· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• Lockhart v. McCree
  Supreme Court· 1986-05-05· cited 1,649×
• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 813×
• Younger v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-07-27· cited 781×
• Blystone v. Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court· 1990-02-28· cited 551×
• Holland v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1990-02-20· cited 489×
• Albury v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-11-28· cited 362×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-05-30· cited 167×
• Ivon Ray Stanley v. Walter D. Zant, Warden Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Center, Defendant
  Eleventh Circuit· 1983-05-03· cited 156×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 149×
• William \Billy\ Mitchell v. Ralph Kemp, Warden
  Eleventh Circuit· 1985-05-23· cited 145×
• Michael Crisp v. Jack R. Duckworth, Warden
  Seventh Circuit· 1984-09-14· cited 112×