44 Conn. App. 198 - State v. McClam’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Jenkins v. Commissioner of Correction (1999), State v. Daeria (1998)
55 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. Golding · State v. Stanley · State v. Marra · State v. Tomasko · State v. Mejia
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his court does not retry the case or evaluate the credibility of the witnesses. ... Rather, we must defer to the [trier of fact's] assessment of the credibility of the witnesses based on its firsthand observation of their conduct, demeanor and attitude.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who uses a deadly weapon upon a vital part of another will be deemed to have intended the probable result of that act, and from such a circumstance a proper inference may be drawn in some cases that there was an intent to kill.... A pistol ... or gun is a deadly weapon per se.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an intent to kill can be inferred merely from the use of a deadly weapon on another person.”
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.