State v. Chace’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Williams (1987), State v. Whelan (1986)
91 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Griffin v. California · State v. Evans · Swansboro Country, Inc. v. Lumberman's Mortgage Co. · Hullum 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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Intent is a mental process which ordinarily can be proven only by circumstantial evidence. An intent to cause death may be inferred from circumstantial evidence such as the type of weapon used, the manner in which it was used, the type of wound inflicted and the events leading to and immediately following the death. State v. Zdanis, 182 Conn. 388, 396 , 438 A.2d 696 (1980), cert. denied, 450 U.S. 1003 , 101 S.Ct. 1715 , 68 L.Ed.2d 207 (1981); see State v. Stankowski, 184 Conn. 121, 127 , 439 A.2d 918 , cert. denied, 454 U.S. 1052 , 102 S.Ct. 596 , 70 L.Ed.2d 588 (1981); State v. Holley, 174 Conn. 22, 26 , 381 A.2d 539 (1977); State v. Bzdyra, 165 Conn. 400, 404-405 , 334 A.2d 917 (1973); State v. Litman, 106 Conn. 345, 352-53 , 138 A. 132 (1927). The use of inferences based on circumstantial evidence is necessary because direct evidence of the accused's state of mind is rarely available.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether a criminal defendant possessed the specific intent to kill is a question for the trier of fact. ... This court will not disturb the trier's determination if, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“because there was very little evidence concerning the defendant's degree of intoxication, we cannot say that it was unreasonable for the jury to have concluded that the defendant was capable of forming the specific intent to kill”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coleman
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.