State v. Spence

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that for Mr. Goddard and those others whose death sentences were converted to life imprisonment “that ‘life imprisonment without benefit of parole’ under § 4209(a) means confinement for the balance of the life of the person convicted of first degree murder”
• overturning Delaware’s Mandatory Death Penalty statute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lockett v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1978-07-03· cited 5,026×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-05-30· cited 167×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 149×
• People v. Launsburry
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1996-08-12· cited 75×
• State v. Cohen
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-02-14· cited 65×
• Powell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-12-15· cited 63×
• Shields v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1977-05-13· cited 46×
• State v. Farrow
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1978-04-28· cited 45×
• Lawrie v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-08· cited 43×
• Sheik Abdel Rahim Ahmad, Formerly Known as Clarence Hooks v. Walter W. Redman, Warden D.C.C., and Attorney General of the State of Delaware
  Third Circuit· 1986-02-26· cited 40×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1978-08-15· cited 38×
• Wallace v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-08-01· cited 36×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Regent Goddard v. James T. Vaughn, Superintendent, Delaware Correctional Center
  Third Circuit· 1980-02-12· cited 23×
• Commonwealth v. Diatchenko
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-12-08· cited 23×
• STATE EX REL. v. Hamilton
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1980-10-28· cited 18×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-05-08· cited 16×
• Hobbs v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-02-24· cited 9×
• Richmond v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1982-06-02· cited 9×
• Fullman v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-06-16· cited 9×
• Zebroski v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2018-01-25· cited 8×