Dawson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the trial judge did not abuse his direction in deciding not to rule on the defendant’s motion in limine to ex clude evidence relating to the Aryan Brotherhood until the penalty phase of the defendant’s initial proceeding
• “The defendant has the initial burden of demonstrating error. If the defendant is successful in discharging that obligation, the burden of proof shifts to the State.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-04-17· cited 276×
• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• People v. Young
  California Supreme Court· 2019-07-25· cited 109×
• Nelson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-07-30· cited 85×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-23· cited 75×
• United States v. Darryl Wayne Hall, Carl Stewart, Also Known as Pee Wee, and Kevin Ferguson
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-05-22· cited 64×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-15· cited 50×
• Red Dog v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-11-05· cited 45×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-25· cited 17×
• Flanagan v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 1993-02-10· cited 15×
• Dawson v. Snyder
  D. Delaware· 1997-12-15· cited 6×
• Hansley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-10-27· cited 6×
• State v. Dawson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1995-06-09· cited 4×
• Worthy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-08-06· cited 2×
• Hansley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-11-05
• Downs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-03-04
• Commonwealth v. Hamlett, J., Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-07-21
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-09-08
• Terreros v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-01-18
• Jewell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-03-31

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Tumey v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1927-03-14· cited 2,714×
• Waller v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-21· cited 2,166×
• Vasquez v. Hillery
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-14· cited 1,638×
• Clemons v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-17· cited 1,318×
• Satterwhite v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1988-05-31· cited 926×
• Pope v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1987-05-04· cited 672×
• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 544×
• Sochor v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1992-06-08· cited 346×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 149×
• Claudio v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-01-22· cited 107×
• Hammond v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-12-28· cited 91×
• Van Arsdall v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-04-20· cited 78×
• Brokenbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-03-18· cited 69×
• State v. Cohen
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-02-14· cited 65×
• Whalen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-04-12· cited 61×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-10-04· cited 54×
• Michael v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-07-10· cited 45×
• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1991-04-01· cited 2×