State v. Wolff’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably State v. Hines (1998), State v. Wolff (1996)
74 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 State v. Golding · California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra · State v. Kurvin · State v. Glover · State v. Sinclair
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A charge cannot be given in the abstract without reference to the evidence sufficient to provide guidance to the jury in arriving at a just result. See Shelnitz v. Greenberg, 200 Conn. 58 , 72 , 509 A.2d 1023 (1986). The jury instructions must assist the jury in `applying the law correctly to the facts which they might find to be established.' Jacques v. Carter, 2 Conn. App. 27 , 33 , 476 A.2d 621 (1984). The charge must `go beyond a bare statement of accurate legal principles to the extent of indicating to the jury the application of those principles to the facts claimed to have been proven.' State v. Sumner, 178 Conn. 163 , 170-71 , 422 A.2d 299 CT Page 2379 (1979). It must be viewed in the context of the factual issues raised at the trial. State v. Kurvin, 186 Conn. 555 , 558 , 442 A.2d 1327 (1983). The judge may not simply `”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“lay down the general principles applicable to a case and leave the jury to apply them, but it is his duty to inform the jury what the law is as applicable to the facts of the case.”
1 later decision 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.