Blankenship v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting the Larrison test previously adopted under Delaware law in Johnson v. State, 410 A.2d 1014 (Del. 1980)
• reaffirming the Larrison test as the standard for reviewing a motion for a new trial based on witness recantation, which the court previously adopted in Johnson v. State, 410 A.2d 1014 (Del. 1980)
• “The holding of an evidentiary hearing to determine the merits of a Motion for a New Trial is within the discretion of the trial judge subject to review only for abuse of that discretion.”
• “A Motion for a New Trial based upon a witness’ recantation is generally viewed with suspicion, and a denial of such a motion will not be reversed on appeal unless there has been an abuse of discretion by the Trial Court.”
• “A Motion for a New Trial based upon a witness’ recantation is generally viewed with suspicion, and a denial of such a motion will not be reversed on appeal unless there has been an abuse of discretion by the Trial Court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-01-27· cited 55×
• Weedon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-04-14· cited 37×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-02-09· cited 26×
• Downes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-03-30· cited 23×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-06-01· cited 18×
• People v. Schneider
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2000-01-18· cited 5×
• Gibson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-09-29· cited 5×
• State of Delaware v. Wright.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-08-19
• State of Delaware v. Simmers.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-02-18
• State v. White
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-11-21
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-06-17
• State v. Adkins
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-08-25
• State v. Evans, Jr.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-10-08
• State v. Milton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-10-12
• State v. Washington
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-11-09
• State v. Justice
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-07-01
• State v. Layton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-10-06
• State v. Miller
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-04-10
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-04-22

Cites

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

• Jackson v. Denno
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 6,121×
• Oregon v. Mathiason
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-25· cited 2,680×
• Culombe v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-19· cited 1,662×
• Spano v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-22· cited 1,164×
• Davis v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-20· cited 986×
• Brown v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1936-02-17· cited 960×
• Larrison v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1928-01-07· cited 378×
• United States v. Johnson
  Supreme Court· 1946-03-04· cited 361×
• Greenwald v. Wisconsin
  Supreme Court· 1968-04-01· cited 326×
• Berry v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 1851-10-15· cited 277×
• Sims v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1967-12-18· cited 242×
• Thompson v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1951-03-01· cited 137×
• Anonymous J. v. Bar Ass'n
  Supreme Court· 1975-10-06· cited 133×
• United States v. James Walter Scott
  Ninth Circuit· 1975-09-25· cited 86×
• Gordon v. United States
  Sixth Circuit· 1949-12-05· cited 84×
• Norton Edward Richardson v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1966-05-12· cited 78×
• United States v. Keith Leon Wallace
  Fourth Circuit· 1976-01-08· cited 75×
• United States v. Ernest C. Hamilton, Lloyd E. Hennigan, Jr., Philip J. Shaheen, Jr., and Henri Loridans
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-10-03· cited 73×
• B. H. Newman v. United States
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-11-27· cited 71×
• United States v. Edmund Rosner
  Second Circuit· 1975-04-29· cited 69×