Taylor 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 “defense counsel and the court should not have impeded Taylor in exercising his Sixth Amendment-secured autonomy to control his plea decision when the court had not yet accepted his plea”
• “‘[c]ounsel cannot undermine the defendant’s right to make these personal and fundamental decisions by ignoring the defendant’s choice and arguing affirmatively against the defendant’s chosen objective.’”
• “[t]he accused has the ‘ultimate authority to make certain fundamental decisions regarding the case, as to whether to plead guilty, waive a jury, testify in his or her own behalf, or take an appeal.’”
• discussing a defendant’s “autonomy interest” in electing to plead guilty

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

17 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Kane v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-05-18
• Weber v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-07-29
• O'Neil v. State of Delaware
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-04-28
• State v. Stephenson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-05-28
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-08-11
• State v. Taylor
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-09-29
• State v. Owens
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-12-21
• State v. Prince
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-01-24
• State v. Brooks
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-06-21
• State v. Shah
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-04-04
• State v. West
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-08-14
• State v. Dillard
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-10-09
• State v. Perry
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-11-27
• Lindsey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-11-28
• State v. Farrare
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-01-12
• State v. Smith
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-04-11
• Smith v. State
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2025-02-11

Cites

22 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jones v. Barnes
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-05· cited 7,925×
• Wainwright v. Sykes
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-23· cited 6,068×
• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Indiana v. Edwards
  Supreme Court· 2008-06-19· cited 1,118×
• Florida v. Nixon
  Supreme Court· 2004-12-13· cited 963×
• McCoy v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 2018-05-14· cited 738×
• Weaver v. Massachusetts
  Supreme Court· 2017-06-22· cited 717×
• Arko v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2008-05-12· cited 668×
• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Jackson v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas· 1979-12-12· cited 236×
• Cooke v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-07-21· cited 132×
• Carter v. State
  Indiana Supreme Court· 2000-11-28· cited 48×
• Commonwealth v. Tigue
  Kentucky Supreme Court· 2015-05-14· cited 48×
• Lewis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-07-28· cited 26×
• Small v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-09-11· cited 21×
• Hahn v. State
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1983-03-15· cited 12×
• State v. Tuttle
  Court of Appeals of Minnesota· 1993-08-03· cited 10×
• Williams v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2012-12-10· cited 10×
• State v. Barlow
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2011-05-06· cited 9×