State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
143 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 143 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Normand Josef Enterprises, Inc. v. Connecticut National Bank (1994), State v. Sinclair (1985)
143 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · State v. Evans · Nowak v. Nowak · State v. Kurvin · State v. Roque
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 143 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is assumed that the words themselves express the intent of the legislature . . . and there is no need to construe the statute.' . . . Federal Aviation Administration v. Administrator , supra, 549-50; State v. Smith , supra, 221 ; Bell v. Planning Zoning Commission , 173 Conn. 223 , 226 , 377 A.2d 299 (1977); Houston v. Warden , supra, 251; Hartford Hospital v. Hartford , 160 Conn. 370 , 375-76 , 279 A.2d 561 (1971).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[G]iving a false name is not impersonation unless the name given is that of a real person.... For this reason, the state must adduce evidence at trial that the name a defendant gives belongs to a real person.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Evans v. State“A person is guilty of criminal impersonation when such person (1) impersonates another and does an act in such assumed character with intent to obtain a benefit or to injure or defraud another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Evans v. State
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.