State v. Leak

How courts have described this case

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

• trial court had inherent common-law power to impose on defendant consecutive terms of commitment following insanity acquittals of multiple offenses by staying execution of one term of commitment until expiration of another term of commitment
• courts 13 have \inherent common-law power to stay the execution of their own judgments and thereby order that confinements run consecutively\; power continues in lieu of clear legislative mandate to alter the common law even in the absence of an express statutory conferral of authority
• courts have “inherent common-law power to stay the execution of their own judgments and thereby order that confine ments run consecutively”; power continues in lieu of clear legislative mandate to alter the common law even in the absence of an express statutory conferral of authority
• “[i]n determining whether or not a statute abrogates or modifies a common law rule the construction must be strict, and the operation of a statute in derogation of the common law is to be limited to matters clearly brought within its scope” [internal quotation marks omitted]

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Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Quested
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2015-06-26· cited 61×
• Yeager v. Alvarez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-11-22· cited 9×
• State v. Brown
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2012-01-17· cited 8×
• Falvey v. ZUROLO
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-07-19· cited 6×
• State v. Webster
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-03-15· cited 3×
• State v. JIMMY S.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-02-22· cited 1×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Air Line Pilots Ass'n v. Miller
  Supreme Court· 1998-05-26· cited 143×
• Ullmann v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-08-09· cited 107×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1965-10-07· cited 105×
• State v. Williamson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-03-29· cited 73×
• Wiseman v. Armstrong
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-03-09· cited 70×
• State v. Lawrence
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-01-30· cited 62×
• State v. Long
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-04-27· cited 55×
• State v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-04-27· cited 42×
• Copeland v. Warden, State Prison
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-03-16· cited 40×
• State v. Pina
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1981-11-17· cited 37×
• Tatro v. Tatro
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1991-02-15· cited 27×
• State v. Harris
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-01-07· cited 16×
• State v. Brooks
  Court of Appeals of Oregon· 2003-04-24· cited 12×
• Fennelly v. Norton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-01-19· cited 11×
• Grant v. Commissioner of Correction
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2005-03-08· cited 10×
• State v. Banks
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2000-08-01· cited 9×
• State v. C.A.J.
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 1988-12-06· cited 9×
• Woodrow Wilson of Middletown, LLC v. Connecticut Housing Finance Authority
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-02-02· cited 8×