171 Conn. App. 486 - State v. Ames’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]ntent to cause death may be inferred from the type of weapon used, the manner which it was used, the type of wound inflicted and the events leading to and immediately following the death. ... Furthermore, it is a permissible, albeit not a necessary or mandatory, inference that a defendant intended the natural consequences of his voluntary conduct.”

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

2. “intent to kill may be inferred from evidence that the defendant had a motive to kill.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 180 Conn. App. 205 - State v. Soyini