State v. Dunstan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The rationale behind our Supreme Court's determination in Davis was based on the requirement that the state must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the officer was acting in the performance of his duties as an element of § 53a-167c and the fact that excessive or unreasonable physical force by the officer would place his actions outside the performance of his duties.... The defendant would be entitled to an acquittal if the state failed to prove that the use of force was within the performance of the officer's duties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 345 - State v. Outlaw

2. “[o]ur Supreme Court has determined that in a case in which a defendant is charged with assault of a peace officer or interfering with an officer, in lieu of a self-defense instruction , the court must provide a detailed instruction that the state must establish that the police officer had been acting in the performance of his duty and that a person is not required to submit to the unlawful use of physical force during the course of an arrest ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 345 - State v. Outlaw

3. “This court has further concluded that an officer's exercise of reasonable force is inherent in the performance of duties, and therefore unreasonable and unnecessary force by a police officer would place the actions outside the performance of that officer's duties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 345 - State v. Outlaw