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.

• expert testimony generally required in homicide prosecution for causation defense based on unskilled treatment by attending physician
• expert testimony generally required in homicide prosecution for causation defense based on unskilled treatment by attending physician
• “[I]f a wound, even if not mortal, is a causal factor in bringing about a death, a defendant will be liable for homicide.”
• ‘‘[a]ny limitation on the voir dire imposed by the [t]rial [c]ourt will not be disturbed absent a clear showing of abuse of discretion to the prejudice of the defendant’’
• expert testimony ordinarily required to show wound not dangerous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Riley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-07-12· cited 104×
• Dutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-09-10· cited 82×
• George L. Reynolds v. Jack C. Ellingsworth, Warden and Charles M. Oberly, III
  Third Circuit· 1988-05-24· cited 79×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-12-28· cited 65×
• State v. Dahlgren
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-07-22· cited 41×
• McBride v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-03-02· cited 34×
• Feddiman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-02-22· cited 34×
• Foraker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1978-06-30· cited 32×
• United States v. Steven Lee Swallow
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-03-24· cited 23×
• Young v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-09-04· cited 23×
• Stokes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-05-09· cited 22×
• State v. Soucy
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1995-01-31· cited 22×
• Baylor v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1979-10-19· cited 17×
• Howard v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-03-11· cited 17×
• Doran v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-04-03· cited 15×
• Weedon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-09-23· cited 14×
• Sanchez v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2002-02-25· cited 13×
• State v. James K.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2023-08-29· cited 13×
• United States v. Taylor
  Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces· 1996-08-13· cited 10×
• Naugher v. State
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1984-08-07· cited 9×

Cites

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

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Harris v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-24· cited 2,903×
• Aldridge v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-04-20· cited 452×
• People v. McGee
  California Supreme Court· 1947-12-19· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. Cheeks
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1966-09-27· cited 82×
• Rickards v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1950-12-06· cited 74×
• Odeneal v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1913-04-15· cited 54×
• Parson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1971-02-16· cited 47×
• State v. Tomassi
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1950-07-18· cited 47×
• Quillen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1955-01-06· cited 29×
• State v. Jackson
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1974-11-13· cited 25×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-05-12· cited 20×
• State of Arizona v. Myers
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1942-04-27· cited 20×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-09-08· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1973-01-24· cited 9×
• State v. Morahan
  Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer· 1895-11-27· cited 7×
• State v. Johnson
  Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer· 1934-11-27· cited 7×
• Crews v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1932-01-12· cited 6×
• Pendry v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-09-28· cited 4×
• Quillen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1955-04-01· cited 4×