118 Conn. App. 470 - State v. Mapp’s Empirical Analysis

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15 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Mootness implicates a court's subject matter jurisdiction and, therefore, presents a question of law over which we exercise plenary review. ... For a case to be justiciable, it is required, among other things, that there be an actual controversy between or among the parties to the dispute. ... [T]he requirement of an actual controversy ... is premised upon the notion that courts are called upon to determine existing controversies, and thus may not be used as a vehicle to obtain advisory judicial opinions on points of law. ... Moreover, [a]n actual controversy must exist not only at the time the appeal is taken, but also throughout the pendency of the appeal.... When, during the pendency of an appeal, events have occurred that preclude an appellate court from granting any practical relief through its disposition of the merits, a case has become moot.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 121 Conn. App. 269 - In Re Earl B.