second or subsequent conviction
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 508 U.S. 129 - Deal v. United States · 1993Most cited · 1,251 citing opinions
exactly the same thing, to that "second conviction" means "first offense after an earlier conviction.
How often courts cite the case defining “second or subsequent conviction”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “second or subsequent conviction” — 1,247 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.