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State v. Silver’s Empirical Analysis

1952

Citation profile

96
cited by 96 later decisions
1
states following
December 2022
most recently cited

96 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Boscarino (1987), State v. Pickering (1980)

96 state decisions

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Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on State v. Ferrone · State v. Andrews · State v. Chapman · State v. Smith · State v. Kemp

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Where the same act combines the necessary elements of two or more distinct offenses, the difference not being merely one of degree, prosecution for one will not bar prosecution for another, and where one act constitutes several crimes, there may be a separate prosecution for each . . . State v. Andrews, 108 Conn. 209 , 215 (1928). State v. Fico, supra 429 . The current Connecticut kidnapping statute was drafted from similar New York statutes. New York has developed a doctrine of”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “a conviction may be had for both offenses even though both crimes arose out of the same set of facts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.