Supreme Court of Connecticut· 6/24/1986
State v. O'Neill
Citations
- 200 Conn. 268
- 511 A.2d 321
- 1986 Conn. LEXIS 863
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- refusing to resurrect by judicial fiat a standardless statute prohibiting ‘crime[s] against nature’
- refusing to resurrect by judicial fiat a standardless statute prohibiting “crime[s] against nature”
- “[a] defendant has no constitutional right to elect which of two applicable statutes shall be the basis of his indictment and prosecution”
- where prior misconduct evidence is properly admitted, trial court does not have to determine by heightened standard that prior acts actually occurred and jury is properly left to determine “their commission and consequent weight”
- consistent with disjunctive \options\ provided by statute, prosecutor has \broad discretion\ to charge arson offenses in way that precludes lesser included offense instruction or requires mandatory minimum sentence upon conviction
- ‘‘[t]he potential of a mistrial, upon a deadlock, [is] often regarded as coercive ‘‘
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Judges: Healey
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50 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- State v. PrioleauSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-22· cited 166×
- State v. PinnockSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-01-14· cited 150×
- State v. IndrisanoSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-04-05· cited 150×
- State v. RamsundarSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-06-09· cited 115×
- Massameno v. Statewide Grievance CommitteeSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-01· cited 115×
- State v. FigueroaSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-15· cited 114×
- State v. SchriverSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-05-17· cited 97×
- State v. WootenSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-09-07· cited 78×
- State v. ChanceSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-02-13· cited 71×
- State v. SierraSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-01-09· cited 68×
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-05-05· cited 66×
- State v. SawyerSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-31· cited 66×
- State v. PayneSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-05-21· cited 62×
- State v. RyersonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-09-02· cited 60×
- State v. CutlerSupreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-09-01· cited 50×
- State v. DomianSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-01-02· cited 49×
- State v. WrightSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-08-04· cited 39×
- State v. EvansSupreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-08-21· cited 38×
- State v. MenziesConnecticut Appellate Court· 1992-02-18· cited 32×
- State v. HansonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-03-28· cited 31×
Cites
53 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Solem v. HelmSupreme Court· 1983-06-28· cited 4,242×
- State v. EvansSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1973-06-05· cited 917×
- Louisiana Ex Rel. Francis v. ResweberSupreme Court· 1947-02-10· cited 571×
- Brasfield v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1926-11-22· cited 490×
- State v. AshermanSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-07-17· cited 255×
- State v. WhistnantSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-02-12· cited 230×
- People v. BradleyIllinois Supreme Court· 1980-04-18· cited 197×
- Commonwealth v. RodriquezMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1973-08-06· cited 183×
- State v. SmithSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1881-12-15· cited 174×
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-04-24· cited 160×
- Commonwealth v. JacksonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1976-03-15· cited 150×
- State v. FalbySupreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-05-04· cited 129×
- Yuen v. Internal Revenue ServiceSupreme Court· 1981-11-16· cited 129×
- State v. ChetcutiSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1977-06-07· cited 121×
- State v. StankowskiSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1981-05-12· cited 119×
- State v. BramanSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-12-27· cited 106×
- People v. EboliNew York Court of Appeals· 1974-06-05· cited 103×
- Louis R. Hutcherson v. United StatesD.C. Circuit· 1965-05-06· cited 101×
- State v. RallsSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1974-12-31· cited 94×
- State v. IbraimovSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-06-15· cited 86×
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