State v. McGann

How courts have described this case

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

• overturning trial court's novel construction of murder for hire portion of murder statute which had led to capital felony conviction
• overturning trial court’s novel construction of murder for hire portion of murder statute which had led to capital felony conviction
• reversing conviction for capital felony because of insufficient evidence and modifying judgment to murder
• essential element of § 53a-54b [2] is agreement between hiring party and person hired that latter will be compensated for services
• murder is lesser included offense of capital felony of murder for hire with element of hiring only additional element of latter
• case remanded to trial court to vacate capital felony conviction and to resentence defendant on underlying murder conviction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Reynolds
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-06-03· cited 248×
• State v. Ross
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-07-26· cited 228×
• State v. Webb
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-07-30· cited 214×
• State v. Cobb
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-12-07· cited 167×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-12-19· cited 163×
• State v. Hinton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-24· cited 156×
• State v. Breton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-07-25· cited 95×
• State v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-02-27· cited 92×
• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-07-18· cited 85×
• State v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-10-11· cited 73×
• State v. Wood
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-06-28· cited 72×
• State v. White
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-14· cited 71×
• State v. King
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-07-27· cited 69×
• State v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-07-01· cited 68×
• State v. Sanseverino
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-05-19· cited 57×
• State v. Hart
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-04-07· cited 56×
• State v. Greene
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-06-21· cited 47×
• State v. Miranda
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-06-30· cited 46×
• State v. Milardo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-01-12· cited 45×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Furman v. Georgia
  Supreme Court· 1972-06-29· cited 5,066×
• Costello v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1956-04-01· cited 1,814×
• Bouie v. City of Columbia
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,779×
• Vasquez v. Hillery
  Supreme Court· 1986-01-14· cited 1,638×
• Bell v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-05-09· cited 1,300×
• Rewis v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-04-05· cited 673×
• Rose v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court· 1979-07-02· cited 651×
• Cassell v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1950-04-24· cited 516×
• United States v. Blue
  Supreme Court· 1966-05-23· cited 423×
• Douglas v. Buder
  Supreme Court· 1973-06-04· cited 141×
• Yuen v. Internal Revenue Service
  Supreme Court· 1981-11-16· cited 129×
• State v. Stankowski
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1981-05-12· cited 119×
• State v. Avcollie
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-12-14· cited 84×
• State v. Rawls
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-12-17· cited 75×
• State v. Washington
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-07-01· cited 70×
• State v. Dupree
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-07-16· cited 52×
• State v. Sanabria
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-04-10· cited 44×
• Cole v. Louisiana
  Supreme Court· 1981-01-12· cited 44×
• City of Groton v. Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-07-08· cited 32×
• State v. Stepney
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-06-24· cited 21×