State v. Utz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Atlantic Richfield Co. v. Canaan Oil Co. (1987), State v. Ortiz (1991)
69 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 · Johnson v. Righetti · State v. Evans · Gregory v. United States · National Farmers Union Insurance v. Crow Tribe of Indians
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The defendant and Karen Boyce married in 1975 and the marriage became stormy from almost the early stages. By February 1982, the marriage had deteriorated to the point that Karen left the defendant and moved into the New Fairfield home of her brother, Robert Boyce, and his wife Pamela. She returned to the defendant for about six days but left for the final time when he threatened to kill her if she or her brother tried to contact the police. He made no attempt to contact her for about three months. Between mid-June and mid-July of 1982, the defendant made several telephone calls to Robert Boyce's residence to speak to his wife but was informed by Robert or Pamela that she was "unavailable." The tenor of his calls became such that on July 9, 1982, Robert Boyce filed a complaint against the defendant with the state police. On July 12, 1982, Karen instituted divorce proceedings. About a week later her parents, Dwight and Margaret Boyce, who were also apprehensive, communicated their concerns to the state police. On July 23, 1982, the defendant telephoned Robert Boyce from New York, stating that he wanted to bring his wife's belongings to Robert's home but he was told that he should ship the items and that there was no need for him to come. The defendant did not like that suggestion at all. On July 24, 1982, the defendant, who had spent the previous night at the home of friends in New Milford telephoned Robert Boyce's residence in New Fairfield a little after 5 p.m. and asked ex”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“After the shooting, the defendant left the house and "very calmly" walked towards his car. He "took his time getting into [the] car," he lit a cigarette and drove away. He returned to New Milford and showed his friends a gun and said that `he shot them. He thought he shot both of them.' He left and soon thereafter he was apprehended by Brookfield police in his car on Route 25. At that time, he was observed operating his motor vehicle in a rather evasive manner to avoid apprehension. He was driving his car without impairment although the arresting officer did testify that in the police car he `smelled a strong odor of . . . an alcoholic beverage' on the defendant's breath. He submitted to the arrest at which time the police frisked him and found the handgun. Tests performed upon a urine sample taken at 11:45 p.m. that night demonstrated that the defendant had a blood alcohol content of .10 percent. An extrapolation from the results of that test later indicated that his blood alcohol level would have been between .16 and .18 percent at the time of the shooting."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`It is a well-established rule that the charge to the jury must be read as a whole and that individual instructions are not to be judged in `artificial isolation' from the overall charge.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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