State v. Fitzgerald’s Empirical Analysis

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37 state decisions

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

1. “[Such] review is reserved for truly extraordinary situations where the existence of the error is so obvious that it affects the fairness and integrity of and public confidence in the judicial proceedings. . . . An important factor in determining whether to invoke the plain error doctrine is whether the claimed error result[ed] in an unreliable verdict or a miscarriage of justice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 99 Conn. App. 31 - State v. Marcisz

2. “Where the information alleges, in addition to the principal offense charged, a former conviction or convictions, such information shall be in two separate parts. . . . In the first part, the particular offense with which the accused is charged shall be set out, and in the other part the former conviction or convictions shall be alleged. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 99 Conn. App. 31 - State v. Marcisz

3. “[w]e leave for another day the situation in which a part B information is improperly revealed and the defendant can demonstrate either a prosecutor's illicit motivation or biased judicial behavior resulting from the improper revelation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 99 Conn. App. 31 - State v. Marcisz