Scott v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that lesser included charge was improper where evidence demonstrated that defendant and victim had never previously met but that defendant merely persuaded victim \to play the role of a good Samaritan” and take him to look for \jumper cables” to start his car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-07-31· cited 124×
• Skinner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1990-05-11· cited 111×
• Weber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-08-23· cited 89×
• Coleman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-07-17· cited 60×
• Skinner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-05-11· cited 55×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-05-09· cited 50×
• Grace v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-06-05· cited 19×
• Walls v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-06-01· cited 18×
• State v. Liaw
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2016-04-06· cited 9×
• Stephenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-03-23· cited 7×
• State v. Herbert
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-03-17
• State v. Topolski
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-02-07
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-03-10

Cites

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

• Barker v. Wingo
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-22· cited 12,108×
• Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1982-03-03· cited 3,694×
• Kolender v. Lawson
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-02· cited 3,306×
• Delaware v. Fensterer
  Supreme Court· 1985-11-04· cited 1,786×
• McDougall v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1983-10-03· cited 975×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 149×
• State v. Gabriel
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-03-13· cited 95×
• Deputy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-07-31· cited 73×
• Whalen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-04-12· cited 61×
• Styler v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-05-01· cited 47×
• Steigler v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1971-02-16· cited 43×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1973-03-02· cited 38×
• Beebe v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-10-08· cited 31×
• Fensterer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-05-01· cited 27×
• Key v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-06-16· cited 26×
• Davis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-12-08· cited 24×
• Burton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-02-09· cited 23×
• Upshur v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-07-21· cited 21×
• Hall v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-06-15· cited 18×