People v. Sullivan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the grand jury’s “power to extend lenity” includes “the extreme choices of complete absolution or indictment on the top count supported by legally sufficient evidence” as well as “returning a true bill for only a lesser offense”
• explaining that the grand jury's \power to extend lenity\ includes \the extreme choices of complete absolution or indictment on the top count supported by legally sufficient evidence\ as well as \returning a true bill for only a lesser offense\
• providing that “[c]onsistent with centuries of history,” a New York grand jury may “decide that an excessively technical application of the law upon a particular defendant would work an unfairness that would be contrary to the conscience of the community”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Gross v. New York Times Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1993-10-21· cited 285×
• Ruben Campaneria v. Theodore Reid, Superintendent, Fishkill Correctional Facility, Robert Abrams, Attorney General of the State of New York
  Second Circuit· 1989-12-12· cited 133×
• People v. Harris
  New York Court of Appeals· 2002-07-09· cited 123×
• State v. Beeler
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 2000-02-22· cited 54×
• People v. Goetz
  New York Court of Appeals· 1988-11-22· cited 24×
• People v. Walton
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-02-09· cited 15×
• People v. Meekins
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2006-11-28· cited 14×
• People v. Rivera
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2010-02-18· cited 13×
• People v. Slater
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1990-10-25· cited 12×
• Garcia v. Keane
  S.D. New York· 1997-03-07· cited 11×
• People v. Davis
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1988-07-14· cited 11×
• People v. Suarez
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1989-03-23· cited 11×
• People v. Cajigas
  New York County Courts· 1997-07-18· cited 11×
• People v. Rodriguez
  New York Supreme Court· 1996-01-11· cited 10×
• People v. Prater
  New York Supreme Court· 1996-08-01· cited 9×
• People v. Janick
  New York Supreme Court· 2000-09-11· cited 8×
• People v. Roberts
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1987-12-30· cited 7×
• People v. Douglas
  New York Supreme Court· 1998-08-25· cited 7×
• People v. Stanford
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 2011-09-30· cited 6×
• Jones v. Speckard
  W.D. New York· 1993-06-15· cited 5×

Cites

24 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Patterson v. New York
  Supreme Court· 1977-06-17· cited 2,751×
• People v. Glover
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-06-23· cited 1,131×
• People v. Pelchat
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-05-15· cited 606×
• People v. Green
  New York Court of Appeals· 1982-06-23· cited 563×
• People v. Tucker
  New York Court of Appeals· 1981-12-22· cited 550×
• People v. Scarborough
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-02-12· cited 484×
• People v. Patterson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-04-01· cited 442×
• People v. Goetz
  New York Court of Appeals· 1986-07-08· cited 376×
• People v. Ford
  New York Court of Appeals· 1985-11-26· cited 332×
• People v. Valles
  New York Court of Appeals· 1984-05-08· cited 237×
• People v. Mussenden
  New York Court of Appeals· 1955-06-02· cited 196×
• People v. Getch
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-06-05· cited 156×
• People v. Warner-Lambert Co.
  New York Court of Appeals· 1980-11-20· cited 115×
• People v. Licitra
  New York Court of Appeals· 1979-07-09· cited 114×
• People v. Discala
  New York Court of Appeals· 1978-07-11· cited 82×
• People v. Stanfield
  New York Court of Appeals· 1975-05-05· cited 77×
• People v. Murray
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-07-13· cited 77×
• People v. Huntley
  New York Court of Appeals· 1983-06-14· cited 59×
• People v. Huntley
  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York· 1982-07-09· cited 55×
• People v. Tai
  New York Court of Appeals· 1976-06-08· cited 31×