Weeks v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that legal standard for competency to plead guilty is same as competency to stand trial
• discussing legal standard for determining competency to plead guilty and explaining that a trial court must defer acceptance of a guilty plea if there is a “reasonable ground to doubt the defendant’s competence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Capano v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-08-10· cited 115×
• Ortiz v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2005-01-25· cited 86×
• Rauf v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2016-08-02· cited 70×
• Swan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-04-09· cited 68×
• Steckel v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-05-22· cited 66×
• Dwayne Weeks v. Robert Snyder, Warden Attorney General of the State of Delaware
  Third Circuit· 2000-07-17· cited 58×
• Cabrera v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-01-27· cited 55×
• Norcross v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-02-06· cited 40×
• Stevenson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 36×
• Zebroski v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-07-28· cited 36×
• Johnson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2009-11-04· cited 35×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-04-14· cited 32×
• Reyes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2003-03-25· cited 31×
• Clark v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1996-02-29· cited 23×
• Cooke v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2014-07-24· cited 23×
• Sykes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2008-01-24· cited 21×
• Taylor v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2011-09-12· cited 12×
• Weeks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-11-09· cited 11×
• Starling v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-07-24· cited 9×
• Manley v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2007-01-03· cited 8×

Cites

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

• McCarthy v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1969-04-02· cited 3,200×
• Dusky v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1960-04-18· cited 3,197×
• Godinez v. Moran
  Supreme Court· 1993-06-24· cited 1,916×
• Walton v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1990-08-30· cited 1,614×
• Flamer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 149×
• Sullivan v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-10· cited 86×
• Chao v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-01-29· cited 77×
• Dawson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-23· cited 75×
• Deputy v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1985-07-31· cited 73×
• United States v. Cole, Reginald. Appeal of Reginald Cole
  Third Circuit· 1987-04-29· cited 62×
• Gattis v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-02-28· cited 61×
• Wright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-11-17· cited 51×
• Ferguson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-06-14· cited 47×
• Red Dog v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-11-05· cited 45×
• Pennell v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-02-18· cited 43×
• Lawrie v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-07-08· cited 43×
• Outten v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1994-12-23· cited 42×
• Tze Poong Liu v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1993-08-17· cited 27×
• Bailey v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-09-20· cited 25×
• Shelton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1995-01-04· cited 24×