Benson v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• finding prosecutor’s reference to the large caliber of the weapon defendant used in a murder case as “circumstantial evidence of [defendant’s] intangible intent to kill” to be a permissive logical inference

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

5 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Benson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-11-27
• State v. Ray
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-05-19
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-05-31
• State v. Thomas
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-12-16
• Roberson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-04-09

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-05-30· cited 167×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 149×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-08-28· cited 95×
• State v. Raguseo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-03-23· cited 72×
• State v. Diaz
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-07-02· cited 65×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1985-10-22· cited 59×
• United States v. Raymond Isaac, A/K/A Rocky Raymond Isaac
  Third Circuit· 1998-01-20· cited 51×
• Bullock v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-06-27· cited 48×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-04-27· cited 45×
• Baker v. Reid
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1947-09-12· cited 45×
• Floray v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-12-02· cited 42×
• Bland v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1970-02-11· cited 36×
• Johnson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1996-05-02· cited 30×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1991-02-18· cited 28×
• Parker v. State
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1986-10-20· cited 20×
• Grace v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-06-05· cited 19×
• State v. Rokus
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1992-05-01· cited 19×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-09-08· cited 10×
• Domanski v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1983-06-16· cited 6×