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.

• “As the trier of fact, it was for the trial judge to determine whether [the testimony was] credible.”
• “[E]vidence of a victim's prior bad acts may be admissible to support a claim of self-defense where the defendant had actual knowledge of the victim's prior bad acts.”
• “‘An abuse of discretion occurs when a court has exceeded the bounds of reason in view of the circumstances, or so ignored recognized rules of law or practice to produce injustice.’” (quoting Floudiotis v. State, 726 A.2d 1196, 1202 (Del.1999))

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• McKinley v. Casson
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-10-31· cited 7×
• Harris v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-08-07
• Dixon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-10-01
• State of Delaware v. Stephenson.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-10-30
• Ingram v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-12-30
• Urquhart v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-02-26
• State v. Wang
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-10-31
• Wharton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-01-19
• Lloyd v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-03-26
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-03-30
• Patterson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-05-03
• State v. Freeman
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-04-10
• El-Abbadi v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-01-02
• State v. Mayfield
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-04-25

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Getz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-02-29· cited 204×
• United States v. Richard Thomas Stitt, A/K/A Patrick v. Hardy, A/K/A Tom Tom
  Fourth Circuit· 2001-05-25· cited 91×
• Swan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-04-09· cited 68×
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-01-27· cited 55×
• Gattis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-07-24· cited 52×
• Floudiotis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-04-06· cited 43×
• Farmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-03-09· cited 24×
• MacDonald v. Delaware
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-07-27· cited 24×
• Tice v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-04-26· cited 21×
• Morgan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-03-29· cited 18×
• Hopkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-03-02· cited 12×
• Gordon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-02-06· cited 9×
• Longfellow v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-02-10· cited 6×