Hoover v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• applying the same precept to an evaluation of a statute under the United States constitution
• “If the language of the statute is unambiguous, the plain meaning of the words controls.”
• “lf the language of the statute is unambiguous, the plain meaning of the words controls.”
• “If the language of the statute is unambiguous, the plain meaning of the words control.”
• “[T]his Court may refer to parts of the legislative record to establish the purpose of legislation where the record reveals more information about the enactments.”
• “lf the language of the statute is unambiguous, the plain meaning of the words controls.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-09-25· cited 31×
• Zhurbin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-10-17· cited 27×
• Pardo v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-04-26· cited 21×
• Evans v. State
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-04-30· cited 12×
• Shapira v. Christiana Care Health Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-08-07· cited 4×
• State v. Murray
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-01-11· cited 4×
• Lisowski v. Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-05-11· cited 3×
• Shapria, M.D.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-08-07
• State Farm Mutual Automobile
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-10-20
• State of Delaware v. Pardo.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-11-09
• State v. O'Dell
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-03-06
• State v. Murray
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-04-13
• State v. Murray
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-04-27
• Delaware Technical and Community College v. State of Delaware Human Relations Commission
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-05-17
• State v. Layton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-12-06
• State v. Daniels
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-12-16
• The Republican State Committee of Delaware v. State
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2020-09-28
• League of Women Voters of Delaware, Inc. v. State of Delaware Department of Elections
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2020-10-09
• People v. Torres People v. Lewis
  New York Court of Appeals· 2021-10-12
• State v. Herbert
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-03-17

Cites

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

• Morissette v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-01-07· cited 3,056×
• United States v. Harriss
  Supreme Court· 1954-06-07· cited 1,827×
• United States v. Balint
  Supreme Court· 1922-03-27· cited 605×
• United States v. Powell
  Supreme Court· 1975-12-09· cited 550×
• Davis v. Dennis B.
  California Supreme Court· 1976-12-28· cited 104×
• Sanders v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-12-28· cited 65×
• Spielberg v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-03-16· cited 63×
• State of Oregon v. Wojahn
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1955-04-13· cited 58×
• People v. Pociask
  California Supreme Court· 1939-11-30· cited 38×
• Butts v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2003-05-01· cited 36×
• Ingram v. Thorpe
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-03-07· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Burt
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-05-30· cited 35×
• State v. Baker
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-12-01· cited 34×
• State v. Tabasso Homes, Inc.
  New York Court of General Session of the Peace· 1942-09-09· cited 31×
• Moore v. Wilmington Housing Authority
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-02-08· cited 28×
• Snell v. Engineered Systems & Designs, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-09-13· cited 23×
• McDade v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-05-23· cited 22×
• United States v. Henderson
  D.C. Circuit· 1941-04-07· cited 20×
• Sandt v. Delaware Solid Waste Authority
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-05-17· cited 20×
• People v. McKee
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1995-04-25· cited 18×