State v. McElveen’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

156 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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he fundamental principles underpinning * the mootness doctrine are well settled.... Because courts are established to resolve actual controversies, before a claimed controversy is entitled to a resolution on the merits it must be justiciable. Justiciability requires [among other things] ... that the determination of the controversy will result in practical relief to the complainant.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ludgin v. State Elections Enforce. Comm., No. Cv 02 0512793s (Jan. 23, 2003) · 175 Conn. App. 681 - Renaissance Management Co. v. Barnes

2. “An actual controversy must exist not only at the time the appeal is taken, but also throughout the pendency of the appeal.... When, during the pendency of an appeal, events have occurred that preclude an appellate court from granting any practical relief through its disposition of the merits, a case has become moot.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Conn. App. 681 - Renaissance Management Co. v. Barnes · 2002 Conn. Super. Ct. 14164 - Stanley v. Appeal From Probate, No. Cv99 36 38 95 S (Nov. 5, 2002)

3. “[T]he defendant is seeking review of the trial court's determination that he violated probation by virtue of his criminal conduct. . . . By admitting to that very conduct by virtue of his guilty plea and the resultant judgment of conviction of attempted robbery in the third degree . . . the defendant has eliminated the controversy before the court.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. TD