79 Conn. App. 591 - State v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2022 · most notably State v. Bletsch (2007), State v. ALVARO F. (2009)
51 state decisions
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 Blockburger v. United States · State v. Golding · United States v. Broce · United States v. Alaska · White v. Illinois
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A single agreement to commit several crimes constitutes one conspiracy. ... [M]ultiple agreements to commit separate crimes constitute multiple conspiracies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The double jeopardy clause of the fifth amendment to the United States constitution provides that no person shall be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb. This clause prohibits not only multiple trials for the same offense but also multiple punishment for the same offense. ... Double jeopardy analysis in the context of a single trial is a two-step process. First, the charges must arise out of the same act or transaction. Second, it must be determined whether the charged crimes are the same offense. Multiple punishments are forbidden only if both conditions are met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Some of the factors to consider in the context of whether multiple prosecutions are permitted for multiple conspiracies are the participants, the time period, similarity of the crimes, and the existence of common acts, objectives and a common location.... In [ State v. Ellison, 79 Conn.App. 591 , 599, 830 A.2d 812 , cert. denied, 267 Conn. 901 , 838 A.2d 211 (2003) ], this court also considered as evidence of multiple agreements that there were separate discussions.”
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.