State v. Antonaras’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

22 state decisions

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

1. “Although evidence of child sex abuse is undoubtedly harmful to the defendant, that is not the test of whether evidence is unduly prejudicial. Rather, evidence is excluded as unduly prejudicial when it tends to have some adverse effect upon a defendant beyond tending to prove the fact or issue that justified its admission into evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 76 - State v. Daniel W. · 178 Conn. App. 147 - State v. Eddie N. C.

2. “[i]n a number of cases, our Supreme Court and this court have looked to the initial sexual advances of the defendant in comparing the similarity of the uncharged misconduct to the charged abuse, especially when the uncharged misconduct witnesses rebuffed the advances or the defendant otherwise was prevented from abusing them .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 76 - State v. Daniel W.

3. “[e]ven a relatively long hiatus between the charged and uncharged misconduct ... is not, by itself, determinative ... especially when there are distinct parallels between the prior misconduct and the charged misconduct”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 250 - State v. Angel M.