State v. Ash’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
123 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently November 2021 · most notably State v. Prioleau (1995), State v. Day (1995)
123 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 Washington v. Texas · Goldstein v. United States · State v. Reed · Locke v. Ponte · State v. Corchado
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person in possession or control of premises, or a person who is licensed or privileged to be in or upon such premises, is justified in using reasonable physical force upon another person when and to the extent that he reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent or terminate the commission or attempted commission of a criminal trespass by such other person in or upon such premises; but he may use deadly physical force under such circumstances only (1) in defense of a person as prescribed in § 53a-19, or (2) when he reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent an attempt by the trespasser to commit arson or any crime of violence, or (3) to the extent that he reasonably believes it necessary to prevent or terminate an unlawful entry by force into his dwelling as defined in [General Statutes] § 53a-100 . . . and for the sole purpose of such prevention or termination. “You will note that the entire statute regarding the use of force in defense of premises is not applicable unless the person in possession or control or a person who is licensed or privileged to be on the premises reasonably believes it is necessary to prevent or terminate the commission of a criminal trespass by such other person in or upon such premises. “It is important that I define for you the term criminal trespass. A person is guilty of criminal trespass when knowing that he is not licensed or privileged to do so enters or remains in a building. “There is evidence in this case that the building identif”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Amado“[A] fundamental element of due process of law is the right of a defendant charged with a crime to establish a defense.... Where, as here, the challenged jury instructions involve a constitutional right, the applicable standard of review is whether there is a reasonable possibility that the jury was misled in reaching its verdict.... In evaluating the particular charges at issue, we must adhere to the well settled rule that a charge to the jury is to be considered in its entirety, read as a whole, and judged by its total effect rather than by its individual component parts.... [T]he test of a court's charge is ... whether it fairly presents the case to the jury in such a way that injustice is not done to either party under the established rules of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins“[a] charge to the jury is not to be critically dissected for the purpose of discovering possible inaccuracies of statement, but it is to be considered rather as to its probable effect upon the jury in guiding them to a correct verdict in the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Collins
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.