State v. Onofrio’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
160 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 161 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Sturman v. Socha (1983), State v. Jarzbek (1987)
160 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 Coolidge v. New Hampshire · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Sedillo v. United States · Harris v. United States · Stanley v. Georgia
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 161 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`[d]iscretion . . . imports something more than leeway in decision-making." State v. Onofrio, 179 Conn. 23 , 29 , 425 A.2d 560 (1980). It denotes "the absence of a hard and fast rule or a mandatory procedure regardless of varying circumstances." State v. Wallach, 353 Mo. 312, 323 , 182 S.W.2d 313 (1944). It means "`"a legal discretion to be exercised in conformity with the spirit of the law and in a manner to subserve and not to impede or defeat the ends of substantial justice."'" Buckley v. Warden, 181 Conn. 286 , 290 , 435 A.2d 348 (1980), quoting Hammerberg v. Leinert, 132 Conn. 596 , 604 , 46 A.2d 420 (1946); see State v. Battle, 170 Conn. 469 , 476 , 365 A.2d 1100 (1976)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right to have a proffered exhibit marked for identification is indeed a broad one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[d]iscretion . . . imports something more than leeway in decision-making.”
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.