Mills v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• relying on the placement of the crime of resisting arrest by force or violence in the Delaware Code to determine the proper unit of prosecution for the crime as the act of resisting arrest by force or violence and not the number of officers the defendant resisted by force or violence
• “We have also held that . . . issues of statutory interpretation are reviewed de novo.”
• “Because Mills did not present any of his claims on appeal to the court below, we review for plain error.”
• “Because this is a pure statutory interpretation issue, the standard of review is effectively de novo.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Mills v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-10-29
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-04-13
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-12-10
• Patrick v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-09-23
• Kent v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-09-24
• Ryle v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-01-31
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-02-24
• Pierce v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-03-24
• Thomas v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-11-03
• State v. Jewell
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-06-12
• McGuiness v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-02-13
• State v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 2024-10-11
• Wingate v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-11-04
• Wilkerson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-01-07
• Ross v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-02-20
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-05-27

Cites

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

• Blockburger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1931-12-11· cited 10,676×
• Brown v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-16· cited 3,552×
• Ladner v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1958-12-15· cited 631×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-12-16· cited 208×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 149×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1997-08-21· cited 131×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-12-10· cited 75×
• Dwight Rashad v. Sherry Burt
  Sixth Circuit· 1997-03-14· cited 65×
• Purnell v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2003-06-18· cited 59×
• Whalen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-07-06· cited 50×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-05-09· cited 50×
• Bullock v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-06-27· cited 48×
• Martin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-07-14· cited 40×
• Keyser v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-02-17· cited 35×
• Feddiman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-02-22· cited 34×
• Stigars v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-04-01· cited 33×
• People v. Floyd
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1996-03-20· cited 33×
• State v. Parsons
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1994-01-31· cited 30×
• Poteat v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-12-17· cited 28×