State v. Yurch’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2016
23 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 Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Malloy v. Hogan · Rose v. Clark · United States v. Nobles · CPC International Inc. v. Dimmitt Agri Industries, Inc.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article first , § 8 , of the Connecticut constitution affords criminal defendants a similar protection in language at least as broad as its federal counterpart.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“application of a harmless error analysis is consistent with the basic tenets and goals of our adversarial system of criminal justice. Indeed, the appellate harmless error doctrine is rooted in [a] fundamental purpose of our criminal justice system-to convict the guilty and acquit the innocent. The harmless error doctrine recognizes the principle that the central purpose of a criminal trial is to decide the factual question of the defendant's guilt or innocence ... and promotes public respect for the criminal process by focusing on the underlying fairness of the trial rather than on the virtually inevitable presence of immaterial error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ruocco“"(b) Unless the accused requests otherwise, the court shall instruct the jury that they may draw no unfavorable inferences from the accused's failure to testify. In cases tried to the court, no unfavorable inferences shall be drawn by the court from the accused's silence."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ruocco
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.