State v. Lafferty

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court accepted compulsive or pathological gambling as volitional insanity defense to charge of embezzlement, defendant acquitted; appellate court did not reach issue
• “we construe the term ‘danger’ according to the ‘commonly approved usage of the language’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

4 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Crump
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-12-02· cited 58×
• United States v. Gerald Davis
  Seventh Circuit· 1985-09-05· cited 45×
• State v. Jacob
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-05-14· cited 14×
• State v. Nicholson
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2004-06-22· cited 5×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Jones v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1983-06-29· cited 741×
• State v. Belton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-06-28· cited 82×
• State v. Perruccio
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-01-31· cited 74×
• Winfred Overholser v. Herbert T. O'Beirne
  D.C. Circuit· 1962-06-08· cited 53×
• Winfred Overholser, Superintendent, St. Elizabeths Hospital v. Robert Stanley Russell
  D.C. Circuit· 1960-09-19· cited 23×
• State v. Lafferty
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-03-01· cited 21×
• State v. Lafferty
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-08-09· cited 15×
• State v. MacCioli
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1970-05-13· cited 3×