Corraspe v. People

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the canons of statutory construction equally apply when interpreting court rules
• finding Fed. R. Crim. R 11 to be in conflict with Superior Court 126, both of which explicitly address the procedure for the taking of a criminal plea
• ‘“[AJlmost every rule of construction for statutes finds application in the interpretation of the rules of practice.” (quotation marks and citation omitted)
• “It is a cardinal principle of statutory construction that a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.”
• “It is a cardinal principle of statutory construction that a statute ought, upon the whole, to be so construed that, if it can be prevented, no clause, sentence, or word shall be superfluous, void, or insignificant.”
• The rules 0t this Court are applied using the same standards which govern the construction 0t statutes and the primary objective of the trial court is to give eftect to plain words utilized in the subjectrult.

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Vanterpool v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-08-10· cited 49×
• Santiago v. Virgin Islands Housing Authority
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-07-31· cited 35×
• Codrington v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-07-20· cited 34×
• Brooks v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-05-02· cited 33×
• Terrell ex rel. L.D v. Coral World
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-07-20· cited 25×
• Francis v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-07-31· cited 20×
• Sweeney v. Ombres
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-01-10· cited 19×
• Powell v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-08-06· cited 16×
• Tindell v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-01-05· cited 15×
• Suarez v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-06-13· cited 14×
• Joseph v. Inter-Ocean Insurance Agency, Inc.
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-09-25· cited 14×
• In re Disbarment of Plaskett
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2012-03-13· cited 12×
• Castillo v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-07-02· cited 12×
• Chestnut v. Goodman
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-08-12· cited 12×
• Fuller v. Browne
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-10-24· cited 11×
• Joseph v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2013-12-23· cited 11×
• Stanislas v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2011-05-24· cited 10×
• People v. Titre
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-11-25· cited 10×
• Der Weer v. Hess Oil Virgin Islands Corp.
  Superior Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-12-22· cited 7×
• Heywood v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2015-12-21· cited 7×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Hill v. Lockhart
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-18· cited 11,299×
• TRW Inc. v. Andrews
  Supreme Court· 2001-11-13· cited 1,407×
• United States v. Valenzuela-Bernal
  Supreme Court· 1982-07-02· cited 1,404×
• Kercheval v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1927-05-16· cited 1,174×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Zepp, Jo-Ann. Appeal of Jo Ann Zepp
  Third Circuit· 1984-11-13· cited 190×
• United States v. Corso
  Third Circuit· 2008-12-15· cited 116×
• State v. Warner
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2000-06-22· cited 92×
• McAleese v. Mazurkiewicz
  Third Circuit· 1993-07-27· cited 74×
• The United States v. Peter Huff, John James Davis. Appeal of Peter Huff
  Third Circuit· 1989-05-10· cited 71×
• Gilbert v. People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-10-06· cited 66×
• In re People
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2009-05-13· cited 62×
• Government of the Virgin Islands v. Don Berry
  Third Circuit· 1980-08-07· cited 59×
• United States v. Sarun Cooper
  Third Circuit· 2005-02-15· cited 58×
• Cripps v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-07-20· cited 22×
• State v. Milinovich
  Montana Supreme Court· 1994-12-20· cited 17×
• Rivera v. Government of the Virgin Islands
  Virgin Islands· 1997-10-22· cited 17×
• State v. Sawyer
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 2009-06-26· cited 15×
• ENFIELD GREEN HOMEOWNERS ASS'N v. Francis
  Virgin Islands· 2004-10-06· cited 4×
• State v. Sims
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 2008-04-30· cited 3×