State v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

94 state decisions

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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the jury's verdict of guilty on the offense of manslaughter in the first degree was necessarily a rejection of the defense of self-defense. Since the elements of self-defense as applied to manslaughter in the second degree would have been the same as those applied to manslaughter in the first degree, the defendant would not have benefited by an instruction that the defense was applicable to manslaughter in the second degree.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 Conn. App. 1 - State v. Ruiz-Pacheco

2. “[t]he risk must be of such a nature and degree that disregard thereof constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation” and further notes that”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clark v. State

3. “A person is guilty of murder when, with intent to cause the death of another person, he causes the death of such person ....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 185 Conn. App. 1 - State v. Ruiz-Pacheco