In re Daniel H.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably State v. Skakel (2006), State v. Faraday (2004)
98 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 Kent v. United States · Collins v. Youngblood · Fertel-Rust v. Dane County Social Services · Hiatt v. Indiana State Student Assistance Commission · In re Valerie D.
Most-quoted passages
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“In criminal cases, to determine whether a change in the law applies to a defendant, we generally have applied the law in existence on the date of the offense, regardless of its procedural or substantive nature. See, e.g., State v. Ross, 230 Conn. 183 , 283 , 646 A.2d 1318 (1994), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 1165 , 115 S.Ct. 1133 , 130 L.Ed.2d 1095 (1995) (relying on date of offense in retroactivity analysis of change in law ultimately found to be procedural); State v. Jones, 132 Conn. 682 , 684-85 , 47 A.2d 185 (1946) (application of statute requiring court in certain pending cases to order examination of defendant for venereal disease, enacted after date of offense but prior to arrest, would impermissibly give it retroactive effect); see also State v. Millhouse, 3 Conn. App. 497 , 501 , 490 A.2d 517 (1985) (in construing penal statute to determine whether application is retroactive, date of crime controls).”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e have uniformly interpreted § 55-3 as a rule of presumed legislative intent that statutes affecting substantive rights shall apply prospectively only. ... [I]n the absence of any clear expression of legislative intent to the contrary [changes to statutes that create or impose substantive new obligations are therefore] presumptively prospective.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The repeal of an act shall not affect any punishment, penalty or forfeiture incurred before the repeal takes effect, or any suit, or prosecution, or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for an offense committed, or for the recovery of a penalty or forfeiture incurred under the act repealed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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