State v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

182 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 182 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I]t was not enough for the defendant to show merely that the victim had consumed alcohol on the night of the assault and had undergone alcohol treatment thereafter. We have never held that a history of alcohol or drug abuse or treatment automatically makes a witness fair game for disclosure of psychiatric records to a criminal defendant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Fay

2. “While the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment may be understood to grant the accused the right to testify, the `if' and `when' of whether the accused will testify is primarily a matter of trial strategy to be decided between the defendant and his attorney.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 1997 Conn. Super. Ct. 3332 - Freeney v. Warden, State Prison, No. Cv 92 1570 S (Mar. 12, 1997)

3. “look to the available . . . law in reasonable temporal proximity to the adoption of the constitution of 1818 to enhance our understanding of the original intent of the constitutional framers'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 2716 - Graetz v. Brito, No. Cv95 0052517s (Mar. 2, 1998)