State v. Jennings’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably State v. Ross (1994), State v. DeJesus (2008)
173 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 Glasser v. United States · Bullock v. United States · Wood v. Georgia · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · ASARCO Inc. v. Kadish
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The defendant bears a heavy burden of showing that the denial of severance resulted in substantial injustice, and that any resulting prejudice was beyond the curative power of the court's instructions. State v. Boscarino , supra , 721, quoting State v. King, supra , 302; State v. Silver , 139 Conn. 234 , 240 , 93 A.2d 154 (1952). State v. Herring , 210 Conn. 78 , 94-95 , 554 A.2d 686 , cert. denied, 492 U.S. 912 , 109 S.Ct. 3230 , 106 L.Ed.2d 579 (1989). [W]hether a joint trial will be substantially prejudicial to the rights of the defendant . . . means something more than that a joint trial will be less than advantageous to the defendant . . .' (Internal quotation marks omitted.) State v. Jennings , 216 Conn. 647 , 657-58 , 583 A.2d 915 (1990); accord State v. Herring , supra , 94-95.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We do not sit to decide the utility or need for written instructions in the Connecticut courts. To the extent that the defendant seeks such a decision, his request is more properly directed to the [r]ules [c]ommittee of the Superior Court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. DeJesus“The trial court has broad discretionary power to determine whether an attorney should be disqualified for an alleged conflict of interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.