Handy 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 the unit of prosecution for first-degree arson is the building, not the individuals residing in the building
• one arson from one fire that harmed two victims was divided by the State to manufacture additional counts, thereby violating multiplicity doctrine
• \Prosecutors may not manufacture additional counts of a particular crime by the 'simple expedient of dividing a single crime into a series of temporal or spatial units.' \ (quoting Brown , 432 U.S. at 169 , 97 S.Ct. 2221 )

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sisson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-06-19· cited 97×
• Spencer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-03-01· cited 21×
• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-01-14· cited 17×
• Washington v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-11-03· cited 12×
• Zugehoer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-09-01· cited 10×
• State v. Hill-White
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2018-08-10· cited 9×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-05-10· cited 5×
• STATE OF NEW JERSEY VS. GERALD HILL-WHITE (12-05-0475, MERCER COUNTY AND STATEWIDE)
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2018-08-10
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-12-10
• Patrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-09-23
• State v. Gibson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-03-04

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• State v. Westling
  Washington Supreme Court· 2002-02-21· cited 94×
• People v. Gard
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1994-02-17· cited 70×
• Dwight Rashad v. Sherry Burt
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-03-14· cited 65×
• Spielberg v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-03-16· cited 63×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-05-09· cited 50×
• Lozano v. State
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1993-10-20· cited 44×
• Lawrie v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-08· cited 43×
• Feddiman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-02-22· cited 34×
• Ashley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-03-13· cited 25×
• Zimmerman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-09-21· cited 23×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-03-14· cited 19×
• Chao v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-09-20· cited 15×
• People v. Hanks
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1988-09-13· cited 14×
• People v. Gard
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1992-10-29· cited 12×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-02-20· cited 10×
• Passerin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-09-23· cited 5×
• State v. Payne
  Idaho Supreme Court· 2000-05-15· cited 5×