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← 204 Conn. 187 - State v. Mitchell

State v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis

1987

Citation profile

190
cited by 190 later decisions
7
states following
November 2022
most recently cited

188 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 190 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably State v. Oquendo (1992), State v. Colon (2004)

188 state decisions

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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 Terry v. Ohio · Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · Aguilar v. Texas · Brinegar 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 190 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “balances the nature of the intrusion upon personal security against the importance of the governmental interest inducing the intrusion.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1993 Conn. Super. Ct. 2980 - Thomas v. Delponte, Commissioner, No. Cv92-0453958 (Mar. 31, 1993) · 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 5709 - State v. Strano, No. Cr010177915 (May 1, 2002)
  2. “[o]n a motion to dismiss an information, the proffered proof is to be viewed most favorably to the state”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 1992 Conn. Super. Ct. 5729 - State v. Dzwonkowski, No. Cr91-90638 (Jul. 17, 1992) · 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 14533 - State v. Marquez, No. Cr94-0458950 S (Dec. 17, 1998)
  3. “[R]eliability is the linchpin in determining the admissibility of identification testimony .... To determine whether an identification that resulted from an unnecessarily suggestive procedure is reliable, the corruptive effect of the suggestive procedure is weighed against certain factors, such as the opportunity of the [witness] to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the [witness'] degree of attention, the accuracy of [the witness'] prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated at the [identification] and the time between the crime and the [identification].”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 179 Conn. App. 605 - State v. Salmond

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.