State v. Baldwin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

193 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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"I'm sure he stressed the point of one day, one trial. So, most people think they go to jury duty for one day. That we can get rid of business in one day. We're not that fortunate. We don't have a totalitarian system that can try you and fry you in the same day as somebody once said. It takes time. It takes time to pick a jury. It takes time to present evidence. It takes time to produce evidence on behalf of the defendant if he wishes to do so. Petitioner's Exhibit A, Trial Transcript, 27, March 20, 1991.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 1997 Conn. Super. Ct. 5294 - Baldwin v. Warden, No. Cv 93 0001625-S (May 23, 1997)

2. “Bad faith, as used in cases involving destroyed evidence or statements, means that the state deliberately destroyed the evidence with the intent to deprive the defense of information; that is, that the evidence was destroyed by, or at the direction of, a state agent who intended to thwart the defense.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Bousum

3. “No expert witness testifying with respect to the mental state or condition of a defendant in a criminal case may state an opinion or inference as to whether the defendant did or did not have the mental state or condition constituting an element of the crime charged. . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 1997 Conn. Super. Ct. 5294 - Baldwin v. Warden, No. Cv 93 0001625-S (May 23, 1997)