State v. Carattini’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]estimony by a jailhouse informant about a jailhouse confession is inherently suspect because of the ease with which such testimony can be fabricated, the difficulty in subjecting witnesses who give such testimony to meaningful cross-examination and the great weight that juries tend to give to confession evidence. ... In contrast, when a witness testifies about events surrounding the crime that the witness observed, the testimony can be compared with the testimony of other witnesses about those events, and the ability of the witness to observe and remember the events can be tested.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Conn. App. 22 - State v. Franklin

2. “evaluate the testimony of all witnesses by [the jury's] own knowledge of human nature and of the motives that influence and control human actions.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 605 - State v. Salmond

3. “observations and recollections of the events surrounding the murder”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 605 - State v. Salmond