Smith v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• \This list offers examples of purposes for which evidence of prior wrongs could be admitted; it is not exclusive.\
• “This list offers examples of purposes for which evidence of prior wrongs could be admitted; it is not exclusive.”
• when a licensee does not supply a sufficient breath sample and does not exert a total conscious effort, it is considered a refusal to submit to a test
• evidence of repeated acts of violence admitted to establish course of conduct to show victim’s lack of consent to sexual intercourse and to explain why she recanted her prior statements and testified that sexual relations were consensual
• “If the trial court is satisfied that the evidence meets [the Getz] standards, it may be admitted, but the evidence should be the subject of a jury instruction explaining the limited purpose for which it was introduced.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

24 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Clark
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1996-10-03· cited 141×
• Hoskins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-09-22· cited 89×
• Burns v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-09-25· cited 36×
• Myer v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2008-03-10· cited 28×
• Demby v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1997-07-10· cited 26×
• Burrell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-11-29· cited 21×
• State v. Hendricks
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 2001-11-16· cited 21×
• Cuonzo v. Shore
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-10-06· cited 16×
• Edwards v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-04-17· cited 15×
• Barnes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-08-18· cited 15×
• Miller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-03-09· cited 14×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-02· cited 9×
• Wyche v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-26· cited 6×
• Commonwealth v. Herndon
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-08-26· cited 6×
• State v. Asuncion
  Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals· 2006-02-15· cited 4×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-05-12· cited 3×
• State of Delaware v. Flowers.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-04-23
• State of Delaware v. Rivera.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-07-09
• Smith v. Kolawole
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-10-15
• Smith v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2022-07-12

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Getz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-02-29· cited 204×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-07-31· cited 124×
• Keys v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-03-14· cited 71×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-15· cited 50×
• Ray v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-02-21· cited 45×
• Pope v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-10-20· cited 44×
• Gray v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-02-26· cited 34×
• Robertson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-08-11· cited 28×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-04-29· cited 28×
• Hatcher v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-04-07· cited 21×
• Feleke v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-02-05· cited 19×
• Morrisey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-02-02· cited 15×
• Weedon v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-09-23· cited 14×
• Trowbridge v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-08-19· cited 7×