Stevenson v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that trial judge’s contact with the murder victim and undisclosed request for assignment of the murder cases to him before indictment created an appearance of impropriety
• noting the necessity that the judge disclose any information that could bear on his impartiality
• regarding the predecessor provision to Rule 2.11, this Court observed that “[t]he specific instances prompting disqualification that are set forth in the Code do not exhaust all situations in which a judge’s impartiality may be reasonably questioned.”
• regarding the predecessor provision to Rule 2.11, this Court observed that “[t]he specific instances prompting disqualification that are set forth in the Code do not exhaust all situations in which a judge’s impartiality may be reasonably questioned.”
• “Under the unusual circumstances now revealed, we are forced to conclude that the trial judge should not have requested the murder case assignment prior to indictment in view of his prior contact with the victim in the suppression hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Jones v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-12-12· cited 57×
• Gattis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-07-24· cited 52×
• Ronald N. Johnson v. Thomas J. Carroll, Warden Attorney General of the State of Delaware Thomas Carroll
  Third Circuit· 2004-05-24· cited 36×
• Garden v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-01-24· cited 30×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-05-23· cited 12×
• Smith v. Lefebre
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2005-11-29· cited 10×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-01-03· cited 8×
• Sahin v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2013-07-26· cited 8×
• Home Paramount Pest Control v. Gibbs
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-01-17· cited 5×
• Johnson v. Carroll
  D. Delaware· 2003-03-14· cited 3×
• Stevenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-11-14· cited 2×
• Johnson v. Carroll
  Third Circuit· 2004-05-24
• Turner v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2017-05-10
• State v. Manley State v. Stevenson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-02-28
• Abbott v. Delaware State Public Integrity Commission
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2019-02-25
• Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC v. Roche Diagnostics GMBH
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-02-08
• Henry v. Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde
  Grand Ronde Court of Appeals· 2004-06-30
• In Re AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. Stockholder Litigation
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2023-05-10
• Willis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-07-24
• Hall v. WSFS
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-09-12

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Gregg v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1976-07-22· cited 7,936×
• Liteky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1994-03-07· cited 7,016×
• In Re Murchison.
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-16· cited 2,510×
• Liljeberg v. Health Services Acquisition Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-17· cited 1,932×
• Aetna Life Insurance v. Lavoie
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-22· cited 705×
• United States v. Mitchell Antar, in 94-5228. United States of America v. Eddie Antar, in 94-5230
  Third Circuit· 1995-04-12· cited 122×
• Los v. Los
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1991-05-08· cited 89×
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-03-06· cited 45×
• Jackson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-10-29· cited 43×
• Stevenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 36×
• Barrow v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-02-03· cited 36×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 32×