Dougherty v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• stating counsel presumed effective, and appellant must overcome such presumption by proving prejudice, i.e., reasonable likelihood outcome would have been different but for counsel’s alleged ineffectiveness (citations omitted)
• reviewing for plain error when appellant did not request a specific jury instruction at trial
• “Several state and federal courts have concluded that a trial judge does not commit plain error where defense counsel fails to request, and the trial judge does not give sua sponte, a specific unanimity instruction on the overt act requirement of a conspiracy count.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Commonwealth v. Treiber, S., Aplt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-08-17· cited 629×
• People v. Davis
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2017-05-04· cited 594×
• Williamson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-23· cited 28×
• Kostyshyn v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-09-04· cited 12×
• Lowther v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-11-06· cited 11×
• Sammons v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-03-14· cited 6×
• State of Delaware v. Howard.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-10-27
• Gillen v. Continental Power Corporation
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-11-19
• Morton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-12-19
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-02-24
• Dordell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-05-15
• Broomer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-10-29
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-11-09
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-06-16
• Henry v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-09-25
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-04-13
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-12-10
• Kulowiec v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-03-12
• Bowie v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-10-17
• Strickland v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-10-02

Cites

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

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Schad v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,454×
• Richardson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1999-06-01· cited 913×
• People v. Russo
  California Supreme Court· 2001-06-28· cited 498×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• The United States v. James Beros, Titus McCue A/K/A Tim McCune Appeal of James M. Beros
  Third Circuit· 1987-11-10· cited 131×
• Probst v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-08-10· cited 97×
• Rice v. Office of Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance
  Tenth Circuit· 2001-08-14· cited 78×
• United States v. Rodney Williams
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-06-29· cited 71×
• State v. Shackelford
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2010-06-01· cited 70×
• United States v. Lanham
  Sixth Circuit· 2010-08-24· cited 65×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-10-11· cited 51×
• United States v. Melvin Pinckney, and Fundador Cuevas, Also Known as Powerhouse
  Second Circuit· 1996-05-23· cited 48×
• United States v. Jack Shaoul
  Second Circuit· 1994-12-01· cited 45×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-10-20· cited 44×
• United States v. Larry A. Jerde
  Eighth Circuit· 1988-04-14· cited 36×
• Stevenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 36×
• Shivers v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1987-11-16· cited 35×
• State v. Edwards
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1987-04-21· cited 35×
• United States v. Griggs
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-06-24· cited 30×