Conyers 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 a judgment of acquittal is appropriate “only where the State has offered insufficient evidence to sustain a verdict of guilt”
• victim shot in heart at close range while hopelessly inebriated; no intent to kill found; assailant guilty of “depraved heart” murder

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

14 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-12-28· cited 91×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-01-25· cited 86×
• Robinson v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-11-12· cited 56×
• Whalen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-07-06· cited 50×
• Vouras v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-11-03· cited 24×
• Casalvera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-01-08· cited 19×
• Dickens v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-11-03· cited 13×
• Conyers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-10-07· cited 13×
• Massey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-02-12· cited 9×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-03-08· cited 9×
• Keperling v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-09-12· cited 8×
• State v. Conyers
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1979-11-26· cited 3×
• Parsons v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-11-29
• State v. Pearson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-06-10

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Orozco v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1969-03-25· cited 661×
• Commonwealth v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 264×
• Arnold Lowe v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1969-02-25· cited 123×
• Commonwealth v. Shoatz
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-24· cited 123×
• Bantum v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-01-09· cited 46×
• State v. Biter
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1955-12-28· cited 36×
• Shantz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-09-04· cited 30×
• Laury v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1969-12-01· cited 24×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1952-02-01· cited 14×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1971-12-09· cited 11×
• People v. Allen
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1967-06-26· cited 9×
• Hallowell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1972-11-09· cited 7×
• Borodine v. Douzanis
  D. Massachusetts· 1978-08-09· cited 3×
• People v. King
  California Court of Appeal· 1969-05-27· cited 2×