State v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In reviewing the [legal] sufficiency of the evidence concerning this element of assault in the first degree, our task is to construe the evidence in the light most favorable to sustaining the jury's verdict, and then to determine whether any rational trier of fact could have * found that the harm suffered rose to the level of a serious physical injury under the statute.”

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

2. “used physical force, namely, a shove, with the intent to impede a lawful activity”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 183 Conn. App. 354 - State v. Taveras