Milligan 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 instruction was defective because it listed “a litany of possibilities that included purposes totally unrelated to [the trial judge's] careful, particularized findings purporting to justify admission”
• holding that evidence of a later sexual encounter that triggered the delayed report was admissible \only after Milligan had in fact introduced evidence of `late reporting'\ to impeach the victim's testimony
• holding that evidence of a later sexual encounter that triggered the delayed report was admissible “only after Milligan had in fact introduced evidence of 'late reporting' ” to impeach the victim’s testimony
• holding that use of the phrase \another proper purpose” was improper because \it encouraged consideration, without guidance, of any purpose contemplated by 404(b) or as the jury might presume to find proper”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-05-09· cited 50×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-06-07· cited 14×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-02· cited 9×
• Cobb v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-01-03· cited 6×
• Maureen D. Davis v. Bennie C. McGuire III
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 2018-05-24
• Barnett v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-02-09
• State v. Gibson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-10-23
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-12-02

Cites

5 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Getz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-02-29· cited 204×
• Trump v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-06-09· cited 49×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-10-20· cited 44×
• Floray v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-12-02· cited 42×
• Renzi v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1974-05-01· cited 33×