State v. Anwar S.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he trial court has broad discretion in ruling on the admissibility ... of evidence.... The trial court's ruling on evidentiary matters will be overturned only upon a showing of a clear abuse of the court's discretion.... We will make every reasonable presumption in favor of upholding the trial court's ruling, and only upset it for a manifest abuse of discretion.... Moreover, evidentiary rulings will be overturned on appeal only where there was an abuse of discretion and a showing by the defendant of substantial prejudice or injustice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 Conn. App. 106 - State v. Joseph B.

2. “chlamydia can be contracted in utero as well as through sexual contact, but that [the victim's] infection was unlikely to have resulted from the birth process, as those infections are usually discovered within the first three years of the child's life and [the victim] was twelve years old at the time of her examination.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 Conn. App. 106 - State v. Joseph B.

3. “logically tended to prove that she had sexual contact with an individual ... [and] evidence that she had the requisite contact only with the defendant made it more likely that the defendant engaged in the conduct with which he was charged.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 Conn. App. 106 - State v. Joseph B.