Urquhart v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• “A complete denial of counsel occurs when a criminal defendant must navigate a critical stage of the proceedings against him without the aid of an attorney dedicated to the protection of his client’s rights under our adversarial system of justice.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

12 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Pardo v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-11-12
• Brown v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2020-12-03
• Purnell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-06-17
• Reed v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2021-08-11
• State v. Owens
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2021-12-21
• State v. Thompson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-05-31
• State v. Lambert
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2022-06-30
• State v. West
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2023-08-14
• State v. Medley
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-03-28
• McGriff v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2024-08-12
• State v. Reese
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2024-12-20
• Kellam v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2025-05-13

Cites

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

• Strickland v. Washington
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 123,578×
• Penson v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1988-11-29· cited 13,912×
• Harrington v. Richter
  Supreme Court· 2011-01-19· cited 13,244×
• United States v. Cronic
  Supreme Court· 1984-05-14· cited 6,497×
• McMann v. Richardson
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-04· cited 5,113×
• Powell v. Alabama
  Supreme Court· 1932-11-07· cited 4,979×
• Gerstein v. Pugh
  Supreme Court· 1975-02-18· cited 4,350×
• Bell v. Cone
  Supreme Court· 2002-05-28· cited 4,309×
• Lafler v. Cooper
  Supreme Court· 2012-03-21· cited 3,280×
• Morris v. Slappy
  Supreme Court· 1983-04-20· cited 1,843×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-25· cited 813×
• Nazzaro Scarpa v. Larry E. Dubois, Etc.
  First Circuit· 1994-10-18· cited 374×
• Albury v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-11-28· cited 362×
• United States v. Brent Paul Swanson
  Ninth Circuit· 1991-08-27· cited 328×
• United States v. Willie Decoster, Jr., (Decoster Iii)
  D.C. Circuit· 1979-07-10· cited 324×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-04-17· cited 276×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-01-26· cited 221×
• Burdine v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-08-30· cited 178×
• Childress v. Johnson
  Fifth Circuit· 1997-01-10· cited 151×
• Outten v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-11-19· cited 138×