State v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably State v. Golding (1989), State v. Hinckley (1985)
88 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 Manson v. Brathwaite · Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · State v. Evans · Time, Inc. v. Bon Air Hotel, Inc. · Trudo v. United States
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Only the most exceptional circumstances will save a claim, constitutional or otherwise, from the fatal consequences of a defendant's failure to make a timely objection . . . . The policy behind this rule is both ancient and sound and does not permit a defendant in a criminal case to CT Page 10495 . fail, whether from a mistake of law, inattention or design, to object to matters occurring during a trial until it is too late for them to be corrected or even considered and then, if the outcome proves unsatisfactory, to raise them for the first time on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`When a jury verdict is challenged on the ground that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict, the issue is whether the jury could have reasonably concluded, upon the facts established and the reasonable inferences drawn therefrom, that the cumulative effect of the evidence was sufficient to justify the verdict of guilty beyond a reasonable doubt....'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. White“Our cases have ruled that the competence of the witness to testify to the value of property may be established by demonstrating that the witness owns the property in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.