State v. Shabazz’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably State v. Kelly (2001), State v. Malave (1999)
2 federal appellate · 95 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 Neal v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co. · Papa v. New Haven Federation of Teachers · State v. Munoz · State v. Bova · State v. Carter
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although it is true that a defendant is legally permitted to raise inconsistent defenses, when he does so a jury, applying its common sense, is entitled to view with skepticism the persuasiveness of all of the defenses)' (Citations omitted.) State v. Shabazz , 246 Conn. 746 , 764 , 719 A.2d 440 (1998). The petitioner argues that Attorney Crozier should have pursued two theories of defense with the jury: (1) "I didn't do it”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen a defendant takes truly inconsistent positions, it will be `self penalizing' because it will invite prosecutorial argument pointing out the inconsistency, and will encourage jury skepticism about his entire defense.”
2 later decisions 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.