Jones v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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23 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]ppellate review of a trial court's decision granting or denying a motion for a new trial must take into account the trial judge's superior opportunity to assess the proceedings over which he or she has personally presided”

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

2. “we defer to any factual findings and credibility determinations made by the trial court, but we review the legal import of those findings de novo.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 Conn. App. 343 - Manzo-Ill v. Schoonmaker