Jackson 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 there was untainted evidence of guilt where there was a shoe print analysis, handwriting and fingerprint analysis, and the defendant’s letter admitting guilt
• noting the “the troubling nature” of implicit promises of leniency in exchange for the testimony of witnesses
• “When the Brady rule is violated, postconviction relief can not be barred by Rule 61 (i)(3
• . . . ―‗[T]he Court concludes that counsel made a reasonable tactical decision to forgo such testing in order to focus their efforts on creating a reasonable doubt about [defendant‘s] guilt.‘‖
• “Under Delaware law, the jury is the sole trier of fact, responsible for determining witness credibility and resolving conflicts in testimony. Jurors should have every opportunity to hear impeachment evidence that may undermine a witness‟ credibility.” (citations omitted

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Starling v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-12-14· cited 62×
• Starling v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-08-16· cited 53×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-05-19· cited 50×
• State v. Reyes
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-01-19· cited 45×
• Atkinson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-07-18· cited 29×
• State Ex Rel. Dunlap v. McBride
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2010-03-04· cited 23×
• State v. Wright
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-05-24· cited 21×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-11-09· cited 16×
• Staats v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-10-17· cited 6×
• ARCHY v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-06· cited 4×
• Hartman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-07-14· cited 2×
• Hartman v. Deloy
  D. Delaware· 2012-09-10· cited 1×
• State of Delaware v. Starling.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2014-08-28
• Cornish v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-01-26
• State of Delaware v. Rivera.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-07-09
• State of Delaware v. Luis Reyes
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-01-27
• State of Delaware v. Robert Worley
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-03-09
• Hineman v. Imber
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-04-28
• Burton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-06-22

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Brady v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-13· cited 33,902×
• United States v. Bagley
  Supreme Court· 1985-07-02· cited 8,539×
• Giglio v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1972-02-24· cited 7,003×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• Kyles v. Whitley
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-19· cited 6,003×
• Davis v. Alaska
  Supreme Court· 1974-02-27· cited 5,953×
• Napue v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1959-06-15· cited 4,234×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-04-17· cited 276×
• Weber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-01-17· cited 94×
• Van Arsdall v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-04-20· cited 78×
• Tyre v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-02-05· cited 69×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-15· cited 50×
• Pryor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-11-23· cited 47×
• Michael v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-07-10· cited 45×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-10-29· cited 43×
• Van Arsdall v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-11-19· cited 32×
• Fensterer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-05-01· cited 27×
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-04-26· cited 27×
• Ward v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-10-08· cited 23×