Crosby 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 the history of Delaware’s Habitual Criminal Act and the effect of a life sentence for an inmate like Mr. Whiteman
• Explaining the history of Delaware’s Habitual Criminal Act and the effect of a life sentence for an inmate like Whiteman
• discussing amendments to § 4214 that were made as part of the TIS Act
• identifying three helpful factors for the Court to consider when comparing sentences imposed in habitual offender cases: (i) the length of the prison term in real time; (ii) the sentence- triggering criminal conduct; and (iii) the defendant’s criminal history
• explaining significance of a short-term release date
• prior en Banc opinion withdrawn

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Shiffler
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-07-22· cited 232×
• Bradshaw v. State
  Supreme Court of Georgia· 2008-11-25· cited 21×
• Forehand v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-06-22· cited 10×
• WEHDE v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-08-27· cited 8×
• Evans v. Phelps
  D. Delaware· 2010-07-13· cited 4×
• Shockley v. Carroll
  D. Delaware· 2007-06-13· cited 1×
• Stanley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-03-15
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-02-12
• Kilson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-03
• State of Delaware v. Tollis.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-01-04
• Rivera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-08-29
• State v. Smith
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-03-06
• State v. Lacombe
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-12-21
• Bowen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-05-10
• Winn v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-05-29
• Duffy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-07-31
• Kibler v. Phelps
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-01-31
• Cooper v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-04-15
• State v. Whiteman
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2020-04-28
• State v. Singleton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2020-12-03

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Harmelin v. Michigan
  Supreme Court· 1991-06-27· cited 4,521×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Lockyer v. Andrade
  Supreme Court· 2003-03-05· cited 4,077×
• Robinson v. California
  Supreme Court· 1962-06-25· cited 2,369×
• Rummel v. Estelle
  Supreme Court· 1980-03-18· cited 2,234×
• Ewing v. California
  Supreme Court· 2003-03-05· cited 1,555×
• Fink v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-02-21· cited 88×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Wagamon
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-05-10· cited 48×
• Oney v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-05-06· cited 15×
• Jackson v. Multi-Purpose Criminal Justice Facility
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-10-03· cited 13×
• Richmond v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-06-02· cited 9×