Wright v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that counsel does not act unreasonably by not asserting claims that counsel could have legitimately concluded would not prevail
• holding no ineffective assistance of appellate counsel where appellate counsel did not assert an insufficiency-of-the-evidence claim because counsel could have legitimately concluded the claim would fail
• “Counsel does not act unreasonably by not asserting claims that counsel could have legitimately concluded would not prevail.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Andersen v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-03-20· cited 88×
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-12-29· cited 58×
• State v. Gatson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-08-03· cited 53×
• Dobbins v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-09-16· cited 47×
• Timothy Alan Dunlap v. State
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2015-11-02· cited 42×
• Buckingham v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2011-07-06· cited 23×
• Sontoya v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2013-05-01· cited 21×
• Chaun Dubae Carridine v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2015-07-29· cited 20×
• Tracy Alan Zornes v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-06-15· cited 14×
• Evans v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-09-09· cited 13×
• Fox v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2018-06-13· cited 13×
• Onyelobi v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2019-08-07· cited 12×
• Laine v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2010-08-05· cited 9×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2012-08-01· cited 7×
• Jerome Emmanuel Davis v. State of Minnesota
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2016-06-15· cited 4×
• Larry Jonnell Gilbert v. State of Minnesota, A21-1560, Supreme Court, January 17, 2024
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2024-01-17
• Karl Alfredo Rosillo, petitioner, Appellant, vs. State of Minnesota, Respondent
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 2025-10-06

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Knaffla
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1976-06-25· cited 418×
• State v. Spreigl
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1965-12-17· cited 368×
• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1989-05-26· cited 349×
• Leake v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-08-16· cited 146×
• Rainer v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1997-07-10· cited 86×
• Deegan v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-03-23· cited 71×
• State v. Litzau
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2002-08-30· cited 69×
• State v. Hannon
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2005-08-18· cited 43×
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-03-23· cited 41×
• State v. Fields
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2004-05-20· cited 37×
• State v. Sessions
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2001-02-08· cited 30×
• Fields v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-06-21· cited 29×
• State v. Bouwman
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1984-08-17· cited 28×
• Arredondo v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-08-14· cited 23×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-08-17· cited 21×
• Gail v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2007-06-07· cited 20×
• Nunn v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2008-07-24· cited 14×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1998-07-30· cited 14×
• Spears v. State
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-12-28· cited 11×
• State v. Martin
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1980-05-16· cited 10×