Coleman v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• observing that reasonable person clauses in criminal statutes are “merely intended to aid the State in getting to the jury without having literally to prove what was going on in the defendant's mind” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[T]he jury, in determining whether the defendant actually had the asserted belief, [is] permitted to test the defendant's credibility by considering what a reasonable man under [the] circumstances would have believed.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

8 cases in this archive cite this case.

• William C. Wardlaw v. William R. Pickett, Deputy United States Marshal
  D.C. Circuit· 1993-12-06· cited 133×
• State v. Gelinas
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1980-08-05· cited 34×
• Lloyd v. Jefferson
  D. Delaware· 1999-05-12· cited 16×
• Moor v. Licciardello
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-07-01· cited 7×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-07-07· cited 3×
• State of Delaware v. Stephenson.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-06-20
• State v. Smith
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-03-06
• State v. Herbert
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-03-17

Cites

4 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harrington v. California
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-02· cited 2,732×
• Schneble v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1972-03-21· cited 1,324×
• State v. Robinson
  Delaware Court of Oyer and Terminer· 1944-02-14· cited 11×
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1954-05-26· cited 5×