State v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In the early morning hours of December 29, 2001, the victim, Damian Ellis, was with his friends, Damian Wade and Arthur Hall, at the Athenian Diner in Waterbury (diner). The [petitioner] also was present at the diner with a group of friends that included Jason Greene, his brother, Michael Greene, and Gregory Hunter. The victim's group had a verbal altercation with the [petitioner] and Hunter that prompted the restaurant manager to eject both groups of men from the diner. The two groups engaged in some additional verbal sparring and then separated once outside the diner.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 Conn. App. 556 - Brewer v. Commissioner of Correction

2. “[i]t's often very difficult to figure out whether an offense is a lesser included offense.. . . I'm not totally convinced that it's a lesser included offense, but charging on it . . . makes more sense. . . . [S]o as an exercise in caution, I've decided to go along with the request of the defense on this even though I'm not sure that it's appropriate and give the . . . lesser included that they requested and . . . this was the only one that you requested and. . . this was the right one as far as you were concerned, correct?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kitchens

3. “Defense counsel took no exceptions from the instructions given by the trial court. The state, however, registered its objection to the trial court's inclusion of a lesser included offense charge. The trial court explained its reasons for including the lesser included offense charge, and then specifically asked defense counsel if the charge as read was what had been requested. Defense counsel responded: `That is correct, Your Honor.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kitchens