Knight v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that \the trier of fact `is the sole judge of credibility of the witnesses and responsible for resolving conflicts in testimony'\ (quoting Tyre v. State, 412 A.2d 326, 330 (Del. 1980))
• noting “the trier of fact is ‘the sole judge of credibility of the witnesses and is responsible for resolving conflicts in testimony.’”’
• “The trial judge’s determination that a defendant’s consent was voluntary will not be set aside on appeal unless that finding is clearly erroneous.”
• “The trial judge’s determination that a defendant’s consent was voluntary will not be set aside on appeal unless that finding is clearly erroneous.”
• The judge, as the trier of fact, is the “sole judge of the credibility of witnesses and responsible for resolving conflicts in testimony”
• “It is well-settled that the trier of fact ‘is the sole judge of the credibility of the witnesses and responsible for resolving conflicts in the testimony.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Trump v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-06-09· cited 49×
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-09-10· cited 33×
• Farmer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-03-09· cited 24×
• State v. Weisler, State v. King
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2011-09-16· cited 18×
• Richards v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-12-29· cited 11×
• Bethard v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-02-09· cited 6×
• Cruz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-02-09· cited 4×
• Henry v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-08-07· cited 2×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-04-19· cited 1×
• State of Delaware v. Roberto M. De Jesus-Martinez
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2014-12-05
• LAROI WASHINGTON v. JAMES TRAUTZ
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2015-02-12
• Christina Miller v. State Farm Fire and Casualty v.
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2015-03-24
• State of Delaware v. Felix Hutchinson
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2019-02-05
• State of Delaware v. Cristian Mendez-Garcia
  Delaware Court of Common Pleas· 2019-10-16
• Swan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-03-01
• Sutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-06-20
• Muniz-Rodriguez v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-10-14
• Silva v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-06-26

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-29· cited 11,783×
• Edwards v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1981-06-22· cited 6,931×
• Smith v. Illinois
  Supreme Court· 1984-12-10· cited 1,225×
• United States v. Walter George Strickland, Jr.
  Eleventh Circuit· 1990-06-05· cited 116×
• Tyre v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-02-05· cited 69×
• Crawford v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-09-21· cited 28×
• Scott v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-02-15· cited 18×