Williams 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 prosecutor's remarks characterizing the defendant as lying were \patently improper\
• stating \prosecutor's continued characterization of [defendant] as `lying' was both inflammatory and improper\
• stating “prosecutor’s continued characterization of [defendant] as ‘lying’ was both inflammatory and improper”
• finding prosecutor’s characterization of defendant as a liar and bolstering the credibility of the State’s witnesses to be improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Graves
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2003-09-04· cited 406×
• Kurzmann v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-07-13· cited 163×
• Baker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2006-08-28· cited 95×
• Hunter v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-12-30· cited 63×
• State v. Austin
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 2018-06-29· cited 30×
• Price v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2004-09-08· cited 8×
• Brooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2023-05-31

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Wainwright v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-02-21· cited 430×
• Hughes v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1981-11-18· cited 172×
• Hooks v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-05-30· cited 167×
• Probst v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-08-10· cited 97×
• Brokenbrough v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1987-03-18· cited 69×
• Trump v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2000-06-09· cited 49×
• Parson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1971-02-16· cited 47×
• Morris v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-03-28· cited 28×
• Clayton v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2001-01-04· cited 25×
• Fensterer v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1986-05-08· cited 18×
• Saunders v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1984-05-23· cited 17×
• Watson v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-12-10· cited 15×
• Walker v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2002-01-31· cited 12×