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.

• holding that a trial judge’s misstatement in a jury instruction was harmless error because there was “no reasonable likelihood” that the jury would misinterpret the accurate instructions that were subsequently given
• affirming separate convictions and sentences for intentional murder and felony murder arising from a single homicide.
• discussing Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment challenges to jury selection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Dawson v. Delaware
  Supreme Court· 1992-03-09· cited 544×
• State v. DiFrisco
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1994-07-27· cited 455×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-04-17· cited 276×
• State v. Marshall
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1992-07-28· cited 107×
• State v. Hickman
  Arizona Supreme Court· 2003-05-19· cited 100×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-10· cited 86×
• Chao v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-01-29· cited 77×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-23· cited 75×
• State v. Neuendorf
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1993-12-22· cited 65×
• State v. Rizzo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-11-29· cited 62×
• State v. Jonas
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-12-01· cited 58×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-11-17· cited 51×
• State v. Huerta
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 47×
• Red Dog v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-11-05· cited 45×
• State v. Reyes
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-01-19· cited 45×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-10-20· cited 44×
• Pennell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-02-18· cited 43×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-10-29· cited 43×
• Lawrie v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-08· cited 43×
• Outten v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-12-23· cited 42×

Cites

85 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Witherspoon v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-03· cited 4,818×
• Solem v. Helm
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
• Wainwright v. Witt
  Supreme Court· 1985-01-21· cited 3,997×
• Irvin v. Dowd
  Supreme Court· 1961-06-05· cited 3,697×
• Smith v. Phillips
  Supreme Court· 1982-02-22· cited 3,512×
• Eddings v. Oklahoma
  Supreme Court· 1982-01-19· cited 3,271×
• Penry v. Lynaugh
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-26· cited 2,957×
• Sheppard v. Maxwell
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-06· cited 2,653×
• Cupp v. Naughten
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-04· cited 2,639×
• Luce v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 2,427×
• Zant v. Stephens
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-22· cited 2,410×
• In Re Oliver
  Supreme Court· 1948-03-08· cited 2,065×
• McCleskey v. Kemp
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-08· cited 2,038×
• Boyde v. California
  Supreme Court· 1990-04-23· cited 1,983×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Murphy v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1975-06-16· cited 1,568×
• Booth v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1987-09-21· cited 1,501×