State v. Rossier’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably State v. Hinckley (1985), State v. Januszewski (1980)
51 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Evans · Corallo v. United States · State v. Holmquist · State v. Rose · State v. Jeustiniano
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]lthough it may often be difficult to distinguish between the two, such a distinction must be drawn; a person can be found guilty of assault in the first degree under ... § 53a-59 [a] [1] only if he 'causes serious physical injury to another person.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Petion“'Serious physical injury' means physical injury which creates a substantial risk of death, or which causes serious disfigurement, serious impairment of health or serious loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Petion“[a] person is guilty of CT Page 15462 threatening when . . . [b]y physical threat, he intentionally places or attempts to place another person in fear of imminent serious physical injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.