State Highway Department v. Buzzuto

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he Delaware Constitution prohibits a trial judge from commenting on the evidence. This prohibition applies equally to the judge's instructions to the jury and to comments made by the judge in the course of the trial”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

16 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Martini
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1993-02-09· cited 183×
• Michaud v. Steckino
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1978-08-31· cited 74×
• Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. v. Adams
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-05-18· cited 57×
• Eustice v. Rupert
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-04-13· cited 50×
• Sammons Ex Rel. Sammons v. Ridgeway
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1972-05-30· cited 40×
• Jenkins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1973-03-02· cited 38×
• McNally v. Eckman
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-08-23· cited 21×
• Abele v. Massi
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1970-12-29· cited 21×
• O'Riley v. Rogers
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-06-19· cited 20×
• Alexander v. Cahill
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-04-02· cited 11×
• Amador v. Lara
  New Mexico Court of Appeals· 1979-10-16· cited 10×
• Trans Health Management Inc. v. Nunziata
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-12-19· cited 6×
• Pennsylvania Railroad Company v. Goldenbaum
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1970-08-06· cited 4×
• State v. Dunnell
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-04-30
• Whitman v. Hassler
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1970-11-12
• AIG Specialty Insurance Company v. Conduent State Healthcare, LLC
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-02-03

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Dempsey v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1952-09-08· cited 90×
• Union Building Corp. v. Conway
  Supreme Court· 1936-12-07· cited 44×
• Walter Robert Stewart and Margaret Kester Stewart v. Joseph L. Meyers and Helen Margaret Meyers
  Seventh Circuit· 1965-12-08· cited 33×
• South Atlantic Steamship Co. v. Munkacsy
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1936-07-07· cited 23×
• Bennett v. Andree
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1969-03-20· cited 17×
• Seeney v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1965-06-29· cited 9×
• Poirier v. Shireman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1961-04-14· cited 8×
• Kaufmann v. McKeown
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1963-07-16· cited 8×