165 Conn. App. 255 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is ... constitutionally axiomatic that the jury be instructed on the essential elements of a crime charged.... The due process clause of the fourteenth amendment protects an accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt of every fact necessary to constitute the crime with which he is charged.... Consequently, the failure to instruct a jury on an element of a crime deprives a defendant of the right to have the jury told what crimes he is actually being tried for and what the essential elements of those crimes are....”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 205 - State v. Soyini · 170 Conn. App. 185 - State v. Juan C.

2. “[a] person is guilty of murder when, acting either alone or with one or more persons, he commits or attempts to commit ... burglary ... and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of flight therefrom, he, or another participant, if any, causes the death of a person other than one of the participants.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 Conn. App. 93 - State v. Papantoniou · 182 Conn. App. 124 - State v. Holmes

3. “[f]elony murder occurs when, in the course of and in furtherance of another crime, one of the participants in that crime causes the death of a person who is not a participant in the crime.... The two phrases, in the course of and in furtherance of, limit the applicability of the statute with respect to time and causation.... The phrase in the course of focuses on the temporal relationship between the murder and the underlying felony.... We previously have defined the phrase in the course of for purposes of § 53a-54c to include the period immediately before or after the actual commission of the crime ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 Conn. App. 93 - State v. Papantoniou · 190 Conn. App. 693 - State v. Turner