Morales 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 the State has the burden of proof in establishing that each predicate offense meets the requirements of 11 Del. C. § 4214 and that the State must prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt
• “We adopt this standard of proof ... that the charge and the conviction of the prior predicate felony must match beyond a reasonable doubt.”
• at that hearing a prior conviction must be shown beyond a reasonable doubt to be a specific felony and/or felony type for purposes of 11 Del. C. § 4214

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Seward v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1999-01-22· cited 66×
• Siple v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-10-06· cited 58×
• Cline v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-10-20· cited 47×
• Hardin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-03-11· cited 46×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-12-26· cited 28×
• Cannon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-11-09· cited 16×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-10-23· cited 14×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-01-31· cited 12×
• Trawick v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-04-07· cited 10×
• Stewart v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-05-25· cited 8×
• Sammons v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-03-14· cited 6×
• McLaughlin v. Carroll
  D. Delaware· 2003-07-08· cited 3×
• State of Delaware v. Mark Henderson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-04-26
• State v. Lewis
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-08-28
• State v. Lloyd
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-06-10
• State v. Herbert
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-03-17
• State v. Saavedra
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-08-13

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• United States v. Barry Lawrence Spell
  Eleventh Circuit· 1995-02-09· cited 134×
• Skinner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-05-11· cited 111×
• Monroe v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-01-25· cited 108×
• United States v. Fred Leon Barney, United States of America v. Clyde Trombley
  Tenth Circuit· 1992-01-27· cited 54×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-03-10· cited 50×
• McNulty v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-04-05· cited 19×
• Fletcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-11-28· cited 19×
• Saunders v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-03-30· cited 15×
• State v. Skyers
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-05-08· cited 12×
• United States v. Billy W. Hill
  Tenth Circuit· 1994-09-27· cited 4×
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1967-04-10· cited 4×