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← 235 CONN 802 - State v. Esposito

State v. Esposito’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

66
cited by 66 later decisions
2
states following
August 2023
most recently cited

66 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Connecticut v. Porter (1997), State v. Correa (1997)

66 state decisions

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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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · United States v. Bagley · United States v. Agurs · Kyles v. Whitley

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

  1. “It is well established that impeachment evidence may be crucial to a defense, especially when the state's case hinges entirely upon the credibility of certain key witnesses. ... The rule laid out in [ Brady v. Maryland , 373 U.S. 83 , 87, 83 S.Ct. 1194 , 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963) ] requiring disclosure of exculpatory evidence applies to materials that might well alter ... the credibility of a crucial prosecution witness.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 169 Conn. App. 616 - State v. Norman P. · 170 Conn. App. 654 - Peeler v. Commissioner of Correction
  2. “repeatedly held that neither the results of a polygraph test nor the willingness of a witness to take such a test is admissible in Connecticut Courts.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1996 Conn. Super. Ct. 6598 - Esposito v. Barbieri, No. Cv 94-0365768 (Dec. 16, 1996)
  3. “[T]he Constitution is not violated every time the government fails or chooses not to disclose evidence that might prove helpful to the defense.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 170 Conn. App. 654 - Peeler v. Commissioner of Correction

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.