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.

• explaining that it is within the court’s discretion to determine if a requested jury instruction is available under the facts of the case
• holding that the trial court’s refusal to instruct on an area of law is reviewed de novo, but a request for the court to give a “particular” instruction by changing the “form, content or language” is reviewed for an abuse of discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Weber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-04-22· cited 34×
• Pardo v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-04-26· cited 21×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-02-17· cited 20×
• Hankins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-15· cited 12×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-05-02· cited 12×
• Coles v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-09-15· cited 10×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-03-20· cited 10×
• Zugehoer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-09-01· cited 10×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-10-06· cited 6×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-05-10· cited 5×
• Wong v. Broughton
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-02-04· cited 5×
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-07-08· cited 2×
• Hignutt v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-10-15· cited 2×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-09-28
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2015-06-30
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-10-01
• Brochu v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-02-19
• Gonzalez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-03-31
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-01-10
• Pinkston v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-12-12

Cites

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

• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Claudio v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-01-22· cited 107×
• United States v. Richard Lynn Pitt, in No. 98-7383 United States of America v. William Michael Strube, Also Known as Mike Strube, in No. 98-7497
  Third Circuit· 1999-10-15· cited 94×
• Guy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-11-16· cited 49×
• Bullock v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-06-27· cited 48×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-04-27· cited 45×
• Lunnon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-05-14· cited 37×
• Keyser v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-02-17· cited 35×
• Gray v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-02-26· cited 34×
• Garden v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-01-24· cited 30×
• Seth v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-05-30· cited 27×
• State v. Miller
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1989-05-04· cited 23×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-10-08· cited 23×
• McNally v. Eckman
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-08-23· cited 21×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-11-29· cited 21×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-11-09· cited 20×
• Atkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-04-08· cited 18×
• Ayers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-03-12· cited 18×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-06-15· cited 18×
• Bentley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-06-11· cited 17×