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.

• “the Superior Court bears the ultimate responsibility for imposition of the death sentence while the jury acts in an advisory capacity ‘as the conscience of the community.’ ”
• when evidence points to defendant as the triggerman, there is no reason to consider disposition of co-defendant’s charges as mitigating circumstance

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-01-25· cited 86×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-10· cited 86×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-23· cited 75×
• Rauf v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-08-02· cited 70×
• Swan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-04-09· cited 68×
• Gattis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-28· cited 61×
• State v. Wright
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1994-08-12· cited 59×
• Starling v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-08-16· cited 53×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-05-19· cited 50×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-06-14· cited 47×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-10-29· cited 43×
• Lawrie v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-08· cited 43×
• Outten v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-12-23· cited 42×
• Norcross v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-02-06· cited 40×
• Weeks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-02-10· cited 39×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-01-11· cited 38×
• Stevenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 36×
• Zebroski v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-07-28· cited 36×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 32×

Cites

45 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×
• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Teague v. Lane
  Supreme Court· 1989-04-17· cited 6,602×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Woodson v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,907×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Jurek v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-02· cited 2,034×
• McNabb v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1943-06-07· cited 2,030×
• Proffitt v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 1,798×
• County of Riverside v. McLaughlin
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 1,546×
• Mallory v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1957-06-24· cited 1,364×
• Barclay v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 820×
• Roberts v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1976-10-12· cited 802×
• Johnson v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1993-08-09· cited 750×
• Graham v. Collins
  Supreme Court· 1993-01-25· cited 630×
• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 544×