State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
229 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 229 later decisions — most recently July 2024 · most notably Doe v. Yale University (2000), State v. Ross (1994)
229 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Sandstrom v. Montana · State v. Golding · Doerr v. Doerr · State v. Evans
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 229 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant was entitled to have the court instruct the jury on the defense of renunciation if there was any evidence to raise a reasonable doubt concerning the existence of the defense.... The question on appeal is whether, viewing the evidence most favorable to the defendant's request for charge, we perceive any evidence supporting a defense of renunciation presented at trial.... "At the outset, we note that the defense of renunciation is extremely narrow.... Renunciation generally requires not only desistance, but more active rejection, and usually contains specific subjective requirements, such as a complete and voluntary renunciation.... Connecticut has patterned its criminal code after the Model Penal Code, which permits the defense only if the defendant terminates his complicity by, inter alia, wholly depriving his complicity of its effectiveness in the commission of the offense.... A mere change of heart or flight from the crime scene does not establish the defense of renunciation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A fundamental element of due process is the right of a defendant charged with a crime to establish a defense .... We have said that a defendant is entitled to have the court present instructions to the jury relating to any theory of the defense for which there is any foundation in the evidence, even if weak or incredible.... We must consider the evidence presented at trial in the light most favorable to supporting the defendant's request to charge.... An instruction on a legally recognized theory of defense, however, is warranted only if the evidence indicates the availability of that defense.... The trial court should not submit an issue to the jury that is unsupported by the facts in evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The defendant was entitled to have the court instruct the jury on the defense of renunciation if there was any evidence to raise a reasonable doubt concerning the existence of the defense.... The question on appeal is whether, viewing the evidence most favorable to the defendant's request for charge, we perceive any evidence supporting a defense of renunciation presented at trial....”
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.