103 Conn. App. 508 - State v. WILLIAM C.’s Empirical Analysis

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26 state decisions

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The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]ll adverse evidence is damaging to one's case, but it is inadmissible only if it creates undue prejudice so that it threatens an injustice were it to be admitted .... The test for determining whether evidence is unduly prejudicial is not whether it is damaging to the defendant but whether it will improperly arouse the emotions of the jury .... The court bears the primary responsibility for conducting the balancing test to determine whether the probative value outweighs the prejudicial impact, and its conclusion will be disturbed only for a manifest abuse of discretion.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 624 - State v. Swilling

2. “[t]he defendant did not object at trial, however, to the court's instructions, and, therefore, the unpreserved claim of instructional error is not reviewable”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 186 Conn. App. 814 - State v. Patel