State v. Dawkins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

17 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[Our Supreme Court] has recognized that crimes involving larcenous intent imply a general disposition toward dishonesty or a tendency to make false statements____ [Furthermore] larceny, which is the underlying crime in any robbery, bears directly on the credibility of the witness-defendant. Thus, in the present case, the defendant’s prior convictions of larceny and robbery were highly probative of his truthfulness and veracity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Al-Amin

2. “Generally, evidence that a defendant has been convicted of crimes on prior occasions is not admissible”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 4926 - State v. Jackson, No. Cr 11 96 95224 (Apr. 7, 1998)

3. “long after Mina Dawkins and Ramsey returned the defendant and his mother to his house.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 1999 Conn. Super. Ct. 13397 - Dawkins v. Warden, State Prison, No. Cv 97 0002604 S (Oct. 7, 1999)