State v. Menditto’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Felician Sisters of St. Francis of Connecticut, Inc. v. Historic District Commission · State v. FERNANDO A. · McCoy v. Commissioner of Public Safety · Housatonic Railroad v. Commissioner of Revenue Services · Mead v. Commissioner of Correction
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whenever any person has been convicted of an offense in any court in this state and such offense has been decriminalized subsequent to the date of such conviction, such person may file a petition with the [S]uperior [C]ourt ... for an order of erasure, and the Superior Court ... shall direct all police and court records and records of the state's or prosecuting attorney pertaining to such case to be physically destroyed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Spielberg
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.