single conspiracy
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 332 U.S. 539 - Blumenthal v. United States · 1947Most cited · 2,288 citing opinions
By their separate agreements, if such they were, they became parties to the larger common plan, joined together by their knowledge of its essential features and broad scope, though not of its exact limits, and by their common single goal.
How often courts cite the cases defining “single conspiracy”
Court decisions citing the 2 opinions that defined “single conspiracy” — 4,417 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining cases 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.
All 2 definitions, chronological · 1942–1947
- ORIGINAL
The one agreement cannot be taken to be several agreements and hence several conspiracies because it envisages the violation of several statutes rather than one.