Bland v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• providing a jury instruction that “the testimony of an alleged accomplice should be examined by you with suspicion and great caution”
• “Despite the lack of any absolute requirement of corroboration of an accomplice’s testimony, our Courts have always cautioned juries that, although they have the power to convict solely upon such testimony if firmly convinced of its truth, great care should be exercised in doing so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Neal v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-11-08· cited 102×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-09-22· cited 89×
• Keys v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-03-14· cited 71×
• Brokenbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-03-18· cited 69×
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-03-06· cited 45×
• People v. Mostafa
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1971-09-07· cited 43×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-02-23· cited 32×
• Guy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-11-27· cited 27×
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-11-21· cited 26×
• McCoy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-01-20· cited 22×
• Jacobs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-05-12· cited 20×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-06-08· cited 16×
• Saunders v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-03-30· cited 15×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-03-30· cited 15×
• Wilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1973-03-06· cited 12×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-02-22· cited 10×
• Benson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-12-01· cited 5×
• Morgan v. Pierce
  D. Delaware· 2015-03-12· cited 2×
• Bezarez v. Pierce
  D. Delaware· 2015-05-29· cited 2×
• Hoskins v. Pierce
  D. Delaware· 2016-11-16· cited 1×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• People v. Hermens
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1955-03-24· cited 90×
• People v. Grove
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1918-06-20· cited 30×
• State v. Walters
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1952-05-14· cited 14×
• The People v. Cohen
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1941-04-15· cited 14×
• O'NEAL v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1968-10-03· cited 12×
• The People v. Dabbs
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1938-12-15· cited 9×
• State v. Thomas
  New York Court of General Session of the Peace· 1950-07-10· cited 5×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1956-10-19· cited 3×
• Joyce v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1927-11-17· cited 3×