subsequent offense
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
the same thing as "second or subsequent conviction," in the context at issue here, it is entirely clear (without any "sentence-parsing") that a defendant convicted of a crime committed in 1992, who has previously been vonvicted of a crime committed in 1993, would receive the enhanced sentence.
How often courts cite the case defining “subsequent offense”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “subsequent offense” — 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.