State v. Angell’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Ceballos (2003), State v. Pare (2000)
47 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 Doerr v. Doerr · Home Insurance v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co. · Western Farm Credit Bank v. Fobian · Sorrell v. Dayton Women's Health Center, Inc. · State v. Troupe
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rules of statutory construction apply with equal force to Practice Book rules. . . . Thus, in attempting to discern the meaning of a particular section of our Practice Book, we look first to the language of the provision. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reference to a witness' age or maturity level in [the court's] general instruction on credibility ... may be appropriate in certain circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.