Small v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• distinguishing the term “excuse” in the context of criminal law from a “mitigating circumstance”
• “The prosecutorial misconduct tainted the jury’s vote on whether the aggravating circumstances outweighed the mitigating circumstances.”
• “We review errors which were not raised at the trial level for plain error.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

18 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Sykes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-01-30· cited 26×
• Whittle v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-10-04· cited 19×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-07-08· cited 18×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-05-02· cited 12×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-08-04· cited 8×
• Bradley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-08-24· cited 6×
• Keis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-10-10· cited 2×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-05-06· cited 2×
• State of Delaware v. Luis Reyes
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-01-27
• Blenman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-03-08
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-04-04
• State v. Smith
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-03-06
• Lum v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-08-22
• Waters v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-06-26
• Woody v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-09-23
• Cirwithian v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-05-06
• Allen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-07-16
• Bryan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2026-03-20

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• 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×
• Whalen v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-04-12· cited 61×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-11-17· cited 51×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-10-25· cited 42×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-08-28· cited 20×
• Burroughs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-02-03· cited 8×