State v. Avery

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting English common-law offense of libel because no similar prosecutions had yet occurred in Connecticut
• following Higgins in upholding attempted-adultery indictment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• United States v. American Airlines, Inc. And Robert L. Crandall
  Fifth Circuit· 1984-10-15· cited 68×
• Gervin v. State
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1963-10-11· cited 54×
• Cherry v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1973-07-05· cited 33×
• State v. Whiteside
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1961-03-21· cited 32×
• State v. Donovan
  New York Court of General Session of the Peace· 1914-02-05· cited 26×
• State v. Beckwith
  Supreme Judicial Court of Maine· 1938-04-27· cited 19×
• State v. Baller
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1885-06-27· cited 19×
• Farrell v. State
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1892-06-15· cited 17×
• Reed v. Maley
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 1903-06-05· cited 16×
• State v. Bowers
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1892-02-11· cited 12×
• In re Appeal No. 180
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1976-11-04· cited 12×
• Commonwealth v. Barsell
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1997-04-17· cited 9×
• State v. Burnham
  Superior Court of New Hampshire· 1837-12-15· cited 9×
• United States v. Strandlof
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-01-27· cited 5×
• Allen v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1992-05-05· cited 5×
• Warnock v. Mitchell
  U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Tennessee· 1890-08-26· cited 5×
• Howard v. Wilson
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1917-04-02· cited 3×
• El Pueblo v. Dessús
  Supreme Court of Puerto Rico· 1907-05-29· cited 3×
• United States v. De Bolt
  S.D. Ohio· 1918-07-03· cited 3×
• Gardner v. State
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1914-03-17· cited 2×

Cites

2 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Danforth
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1819-06-21· cited 14×
• State v. Knapp
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1827-06-15· cited 8×