State v. Fletcher

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that a court’s role, when construing a statute, is to give effect to the policy intended by the General Assembly
• “The role of this Court when construing a statute is to give effect to the policy intended by the General Assembly.”
• “This policy has been Delaware law for over fifty years, and should not be changed in the absence of a clear statutory mandate.” (footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kelley v. Perdue Farms
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-10-08· cited 23×
• Olson v. Halvorsen
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-12-15· cited 20×
• Vincent v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2010-06-08· cited 13×
• State v. Laboy
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-06-15· cited 11×
• Office of the Chief Medical Examiner v. Dover Behavioral Health System
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-06-30· cited 8×
• Heath v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-11-04· cited 7×
• Fuller v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-10-21· cited 6×
• Duncan v. People
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2013-04-24· cited 4×
• Salzberg v. Sciabacucchi
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-03-18
• Salzberg v. Sciabacucchi
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-04-14
• State v. Young
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-01-31
• The Delaware Call v. Delaware State Police
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-09-04