29 Conn. Super. Ct. 86 - State v. Bowden’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently August 1990
6 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 Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Alford v. United States · 53 Cal. 2d 755 - People v. Cooper · State v. Tropiano · Heating Acceptance Corporation v. Patterson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To deny an accused information relating to an essential step necessary for cross examination of a witness is, however, to deny a substantial right and to withdraw one of the safeguards essential to a fair trial. . . . It is obvious that defense counsel, armed with information concerning the pendency of charges against a prosecution witness or of his conviction of a crime. . . would most likely propound questions concerning circumstances tending to suggest a hope or expectation of leniency productive of a motive or interest likely to affect the witness’ testimony. . . . The jury’s estimate of the truthfulness and reliability of a given witness may well be determinative of a guilt or innocence, and it is upon such subtle factors as the possible interest of the witness in testifying falsely that a defendant’s life or liberty may depend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Exculpatory' has been defined to mean `clearing, or tending to clear, from alleged fault or guilt.'”
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.