State v. Reyes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

29 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “bypass doctrines permitting the review of unpreserved claims such as [ Golding ] ... and plain error ... are generally adequate to protect the rights of the defendant and the integrity of the judicial system .... [T]he supervisory authority of this state's appellate courts is not intended to serve as a bypass to the bypass, permitting the review of unpreserved claims of case specific error-constitutional or not-that are not otherwise amenable to relief under Golding or the plain error doctrine.... Consistent with this general principle, we will reverse a [judgment] under our supervisory powers only in the rare case that fairness and justice demand it. [T]he exercise of our supervisory powers is an extraordinary remedy to be invoked only when circumstances are such that the issue at hand, while not rising to the level of a constitutional violation, is nonetheless of [the] utmost seriousness, not only for the integrity of a particular trial but also for the perceived fairness of the judicial system as a whole.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 Conn. App. 535 - State v. Turner · 182 Conn. App. 112 - State v. Brown

2. “[t]he supervisory authority of this state's appellate courts is not intended to serve as a bypass to the bypass, permitting the review of unpreserved claims of case specific error-constitutional or not-that are not otherwise amenable to relief under Golding or the plain error doctrine”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 182 Conn. App. 112 - State v. Brown

3. “(Emphasis added.) Connecticut Judicial Branch Criminal Jury Instructions, available at https://www.jud.ct.gov/JI/Criminal/Criminal.pdf (last visited March 4, 2019). Nevertheless, because the parties use the short-hand term”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 Conn. App. 532 - State v. Dawson