Simpson 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 an actual conflict of interest requires a showing that “the attorney’s actions [or inactions] were motivated by divided loyalties”
• holding that a Sixth Amendment violation requires “an additional showing of ‘impairment’ or ‘harm’ to the defense, although ‘prejudice’ need not be demonstrated”
• noting preponderance standard of proof

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Bustamante v. Wall
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-02-07· cited 47×
• Chapdelaine v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-12-15· cited 43×
• State v. Thornton
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-06-27· cited 41×
• State v. Pineda
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2011-03-02· cited 37×
• State v. Burke
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2002-12-17· cited 35×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-07-01· cited 30×
• Page v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2010-05-26· cited 27×
• Vorgvongsa v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-12-03· cited 26×
• State v. Laurence
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2004-05-20· cited 20×
• State v. Verrecchia
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-08-23· cited 19×
• Firlando Rivera v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2013-01-14· cited 14×
• Hassett v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2006-06-02· cited 14×
• State v. Justice Andrade
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2019-06-12· cited 8×
• Carillo v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2001-06-14· cited 5×
• Nelson v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2019-04-19· cited 5×
• Hector Jaiman v. State of Rhode Island
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2012-11-16· cited 4×
• Lyons v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2005-09-01· cited 3×
• Hazard v. State
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2010-01-11
• Hazard v. State, 2005-2870 (r.I.super. 2006)
  Superior Court of Rhode Island· 2006-05-09
• Christopher Brown v. State of Tennessee
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 2020-04-15

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Ornelas v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1996-06-10· cited 7,197×
• Cuyler v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,389×
• Burger v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,706×
• State v. Lentz
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1994-10-12· cited 173×
• State v. Feng
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-10-08· cited 86×
• People v. Banks
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1987-11-23· cited 68×
• Powers v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1999-07-16· cited 40×
• McCall v. District Court for the Twenty-First Judicial District
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-12-04· cited 31×
• Toole v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-03-03· cited 29×
• Heath v. Vose
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-03-22· cited 27×
• Canario v. Culhane
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 2000-06-07· cited 23×
• Mastracchio v. Moran
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-07-22· cited 18×
• Adams v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-01-23· cited 17×
• State v. Simpson
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-06-23· cited 17×
• LaChappelle v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1996-12-11· cited 14×
• Beagen v. State
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1998-01-13· cited 14×
• Hill v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1978-03-06· cited 12×
• Broccoli v. Moran
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1997-07-29· cited 8×
• People v. Thompson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-04-19· cited 3×