State v. Trantolo’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2002
4 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 State v. Tomanelli · Squires v. Reynolds · City of Spokane v. Knight · State v. Tarquinio · 5 Conn. Cir. Ct. 190 - State v. Ellis
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant has attacked the sufficiency of this evidence to prove the accuracy of the radar unit, relying upon dictum in State v. Tomanelli, supra, 372 , that `the tuning forks themselves must be shown to be accurate if they are to be accepted as a valid test of the accuracy of the radar instrument.' To the extent that this statement may imply that a test of the accuracy of a tuning fork is necessary as a further check upon the radar device before its reading becomes admissible, we do not agree. A tuning fork is a two-pronged metal implement not *Page 320 affected by moderate differences of temperature which vibrates with a constant frequency when struck. Webster, Third New International Dictionary. The tuning fork referred to by the officer was stamped for fifty miles per hour, the speed corresponding to its frequency. Unlike some other measuring devices, it requires no adjustment. There is little more reason to require independent proof of its accuracy as a prerequisite to admissibility than for a ruler.”
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.