State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

96 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “With respect to a trial court's consideration of whether to allow a defendant access to requested confidential materials, [our Supreme Court has] held that, upon a proper showing and after an in camera review, [a]ccess to confidential records should be left to the discretion of the trial court which is better able to assess the probative value of such evidence as it relates to the particular case before it ... and to weigh that value against the interest in confidentiality of the records.... When a defendant seeks access to confidential records for impeachment purposes, the trial court must determine whether [the records] sufficiently disclose material especially probative of the [witness'] ability to comprehend, know, and correctly relate the truth .... Moreover, [our Supreme Court] has held that [t]he determination of materiality ... [is] inevitably fact-bound and like other factual issues is committed to the trial court in the first instance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 Conn. App. 530 - State v. Carlos P.

2. “a defendant can prevail on a claim of constitutional error not preserved at trial only if all of the following conditions are met: (1) the record is adequate to review the alleged claim of error; (2) the claim is of constitutional magnitude alleging the violation of a fundamental right; (3) the alleged constitutional violation ... exists and ... deprived the defendant of a fair trial; and (4) if subject to harmless error analysis, the state has failed to demonstrate harmlessness of the alleged constitutional violation beyond a reasonable doubt. In the absence of any one of these conditions, the defendant's claim will fail.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 183 Conn. App. 590 - State v. Ayala

3. “that the trial court acted within its discretion when it allowed the jury to rehear only that testimony that the jury indicated that it wished to rehear. We cannot conclude, as the defendant seems to advocate, that the trial court was required as a matter of law to replay more of the witnesses' testimony than the jury believed it needed to rehear in order to reach a verdict.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 Conn. App. 702 - State v. Martinez