collateral consequences
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 391 U.S. 234 - Carafas v. J · 1968Most cited · 1,325 citing opinions
disabilities or burdens (which) may flow from petitioner's conviction, he has 'a substantial stake in the judgment of conviction which survives the satisfaction of the sentence imposed on him.' On account of these 'collateral consequences,' the case is not moot
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Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “collateral consequences” — 2,982 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.