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.

• “[T]his Court has consistently held that a conscious decision to refrain from objecting at trial as a tactical matter is a waiver that will negate plain error appellate review.”
• “[I]f the record reflects that the decision not to object at trial was a deliberate tactical maneuver by defense counsel and did not result from oversight, then that action constitutes a true waiver.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rybicki v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-07-20· cited 30×
• Small v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-09-11· cited 21×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-25· cited 17×
• Luttrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-28· cited 14×
• Holland v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-03-22· cited 2×
• Keis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-10-10· cited 2×
• Wright v. Pierce
  D. Delaware· 2014-05-21· cited 2×
• Adkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-03-15· cited 1×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-11-10
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-02-16
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-05-29
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-06-20
• State v. Frost
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-04-02
• Mullen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-07-16
• Dillard v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-06-30
• Suber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-01-15

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Yakus v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1944-03-27· cited 1,935×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-08-28· cited 95×
• Czech v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-03-17· cited 36×
• Tucker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-09-11· cited 23×