Hamilton v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• ―The prior rulings of a court must stand unless those rulings were clearly in error or there has been an important change in circumstance.‖
• “The law of the case doctrine is not intended to preserve error or injustice.”
• “The law of the case doctrine is not intended to preserve error or injustice . . . . [It] does not apply when the previous ruling was clearly in error or there has been an important change in circumstances, in particular, the factual basis for issues previously posed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cede & Co. v. Technicolor, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-06-28· cited 83×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-01-11· cited 38×
• AT&T Corp. v. Lillis
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-03-09· cited 9×
• Anderson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-14
• Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC v. Roche Diagnostics GmbH
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2014-06-25
• State of Delaware v. Wright.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-02-02
• 21st Century Assurance Co. v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-03-23
• Carlyle Investment Management Group, LLC
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2015-09-10
• CRE Niagara Holdings, Inc. v. Resorts Group, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-03-24
• New Start Holdings, LLC v. Zi Jun Zhou
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2024-09-04
• Hartree Natural Gas Storage, LLC v. AIG Specialty Insurance Company
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-12-09

Cites

10 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brittingham v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-01-23· cited 300×
• Zirn v. VLI Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-08-23· cited 130×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-03-03· cited 118×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-22· cited 71×
• Gannett Co., Inc. v. Kanaga
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-05-03· cited 71×
• DeJesus v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-03-07· cited 57×
• Kenton v. Kenton
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-03-22· cited 47×
• Weedon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-04-14· cited 37×
• Watson v. Burgan
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-07-02· cited 21×
• Hamilton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-04-12· cited 2×