State v. Kinchen’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Angel C. (1998), 164 Conn. App. 530 - Spearman v. Commissioner of Correction (2016)
2 district · 59 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 Bordenkircher v. Hayes · Wayte v. United States · United States v. Armstrong · United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“on the recognition that the decision to prosecute is particularly ill-suited to judicial review.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Consistently with this principle, the court, [i]n the absence of statutory authority . . . has no power of its own motion to dismiss a criminal prosecution unless there is a fundamental legal defect in the information or indictment (such as want of jurisdiction or form of the information), or a constitutional defect such as denial of the right to a speedy trial. . . . State v. Carr, 172 Conn. 608 , 610-11 , 376 A.2d 74 (1977); State v. Dills, 19 Conn. App. 495 , 500 , 563 A.2d 733 (1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ll courts having jurisdiction of criminal cases shall at all times have jurisdiction and control over informations and criminal cases pending therein and may, at any time, upon motion by the defendant, dismiss any information and order such defendant discharged if, in the opinion of the court, there is not sufficient evidence or cause to justify the bringing or continuing of such information or the placing of the person accused therein on trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Pelella
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.