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 statement “the defendant is clearly guilty of robbery” was improper because it lacked a qualifier and expressed a personal opinion as to the defendant’s guilt
• finding a statement that the defendant was “clearly guilty” was “not so clearly prejudicial as to jeopardize the fairness and integrity of the trial process” under plain error review

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

10 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Kent
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-09-25
• Deascanis v. State
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-10-18
• State v. Ward
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2019-11-19
• White v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-12-10
• State v. Schaeffer-Patton
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-02-17
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-05-31
• State v. Freeman
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-09-27
• Reyes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-04-08
• Suber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-01-15
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-03-10

Cites

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

• United States v. Olano
  Supreme Court· 1993-04-26· cited 16,571×
• Berger v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1935-04-15· cited 4,581×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-08-28· cited 95×
• Dutton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-09-10· cited 82×
• Brokenbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-03-18· cited 69×
• Swan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-04-09· cited 68×
• United States v. Norman F. Lefevre
  Third Circuit· 1973-07-16· cited 63×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-12-30· cited 63×
• Trump v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-06-09· cited 49×
• Watters v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2013-11-27· cited 45×
• Pantano v. State
  Nevada Supreme Court· 2006-07-20· cited 43×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-09-25· cited 36×
• Keyser v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-02-17· cited 35×
• Commonwealth v. Torres
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2002-08-08· cited 30×
• Clayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-01-04· cited 25×
• Kirkley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-04-03· cited 25×
• Spence v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-11-13· cited 22×
• Whittle v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-10-04· cited 19×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-25· cited 17×