State v. Brunetti’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 district · 158 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 160 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[i]t is incumbent upon the [defendant] to take the necessary steps to sustain [his] burden of providing an adequate record for appellate review”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 168 Conn. App. 519 - State v. Cunningham · 175 Conn. App. 739 - State v. Soto

2. “[T]he defendant may raise ... a constitutional claim on appeal, and the appellate tribunal will review it, but only if the trial court record is adequate for appellate review. The reason for this requirement demands no great elaboration: in the absence of a sufficient record, there is no way to know whether a violation of constitutional magnitude in fact has occurred. Thus, as we stated in Golding , we will not address an unpreserved constitutional claim [i]f the facts revealed by the record are insufficient, unclear or ambiguous as to whether a constitutional violation has occurred ....”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 179 Conn. App. 461 - State v. Esquilin · State v. Holley

3. “Under the first prong of Golding , [t]he defendant bears the responsibility for providing a record that is adequate for review of his claim of constitutional error. If the facts revealed by the record are insufficient, unclear or ambiguous as to whether a constitutional violation has occurred, we will not attempt to supplement or reconstruct the record, or to make factual determinations, in order to decide the defendant's claim.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 165 Conn. App. 791 - State v. Chemlen · 165 Conn. App. 374 - Stacy B. v. Robert S.