12 Conn. App. 621 - Tyler v. Bronson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2017
12 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Johnson v. Zerbst · Molinaro v. New Jersey · Estelle v. Dorrough · Smith v. United States · Selma and Meridian Railroad Company v. Louisiana National Bank of New Orleans
Most-quoted passages
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a criminal defendant's flight from custody brings with it special rules of forfeiture with respect to pending appellate proceedings. . . . [A]n appellate court may refuse to hear a pending criminal appeal where the defendant has escaped from custody or refused to surrender himself without the necessity of engaging in traditional constitutional waiver analysis. The reason for this rule is that the defendant's abandonment of CT Page 6295 the orderly process of judicial administration under these circumstances justifies the conclusion that a forfeiture has occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We conclude that the petitioner's failure to appeal his conviction in a timely manner amounted to a forfeiture of his appellate rights, because his failure to appear at trial and sentencing was an act completely within his control, and that act clearly manifested his abandonment of the legal process.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a gross abuse of the right to a fair trial,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.