State v. Campanaro’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[O]ur Supreme Court has established that to compel an in camera review of confidential records, a defendant must make a preliminary showing that there is a reasonable ground to believe that failure to review the records likely would impair the defendant's right to confrontation.... To meet this burden, the defendant must do more than assert that the privileged records may contain information that would be useful for the purposes of impeaching a witness' credibility.... As explained by our Supreme Court: [T]he defendant's offer of proof should be specific and should set forth the issue in the case to which the [confidential] information sought will relate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 Conn. App. 813 - State v. Rivera

2. “This court will review a trial court's denial of a defendant's request to conduct an in camera review of confidential records pursuant to our standard of review for evidentiary rulings.... Therefore, [w]e review a court's conclusion that a defendant has failed to make a threshold showing of entitlement to an in camera review of [confidential] records ... under the abuse of discretion standard.... We must make every reasonable presumption in favor of the trial court's action.... The trial court's exercise of its discretion will be reversed only where the abuse of discretion is manifest or where injustice appears to have been done.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 187 Conn. App. 813 - State v. Rivera