State v. Fischer

How courts have described this case

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

• holding Rule 48(b) is broader than the Sixth Amendment and can dismiss a case for delay where there is no Sixth Amendment violation
• recognizing that Rule 48(b) is \a proper means of intervention by the Superior Court over the 'transfer’ of cases having the foregoing results” and that \Rule 48(b) is a codification of the inherent power of the court to dismiss a case for want of prosecution”
• affirming the Superior Court’s dismissal of indictments where the State delayed prosecution and switched cases unilaterally from Municipal Court to the Superior Court
• “We agree with the Court below in its conclusion that other types of prejudice may be sufficient to move the exercise of its discretion under Rule 48(b)”
• the defendant’s charges in Fisher were in the same in Municipal Court and Superior Court
• “We agree with the Court below in its conclusion that other types of prejudice may be sufficient to move the exercise of its discretion under Rule 48(b).”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Hughey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-03-10· cited 21×
• State v. McElroy
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-05-11· cited 18×
• Brookins v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1976-03-09· cited 15×
• State v. Harris
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-09-24· cited 12×
• State v. Glaindez
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-09-30· cited 12×
• State v. Guthman
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-02-24· cited 11×
• Weston v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1989-02-17· cited 10×
• State v. Budd Metal Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-06-29· cited 8×
• Slater v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-05-07· cited 8×
• State v. SHARON H.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1981-03-27· cited 7×
• State v. Hoffstein
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1974-01-08· cited 6×
• State v. Korotki
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1980-06-24· cited 6×
• People v. Mayes
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1972-06-12· cited 4×
• Rogers v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1983-02-10· cited 4×
• State v. Valletta
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1983-04-19· cited 4×
• State v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1989-04-13· cited 2×
• State v. Hazelton
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-01-11· cited 1×
• State v. Cooley
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1983-07-22· cited 1×
• Service v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-03-17
• State v. Simmons
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2020-09-18

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Klopfer v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-13· cited 1,817×
• Dickey v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-25· cited 824×
• United States v. Ralph F. Deleo
  First Circuit· 1970-04-20· cited 199×
• John P. Mann v. United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1962-05-24· cited 98×
• Chavin v. Cope
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1968-05-10· cited 84×
• United States v. McWilliams
  D.C. Circuit· 1947-06-30· cited 71×
• Radio Corp. of America v. Philadelphia Storage Battery Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1939-05-13· cited 46×
• Thomas T. Cohen v. United States
  Ninth Circuit· 1966-09-08· cited 22×
• District of Columbia v. Healy
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1960-05-17· cited 11×
• State v. Dennington
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1958-09-24· cited 9×
• State v. Fischer
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1970-07-31· cited 7×
• State Ex Rel. Buckson v. Wahl
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1970-02-04· cited 6×