State v. Chapman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Gore (2008), In re Carissa K. (1999)
27 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 Boykin v. Alabama · State v. Golding · State v. Marra · State v. Scognamiglio · State v. Dumlao
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no legal distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence as far as probative force is concerned. . . . . . . . "It is the right and duty of the trier of fact to draw reasonable and logical inferences from the evidence. . . . In considering the evidence introduced in a case, [triers of fact] are not required to leave common sense at the courtroom door. . . . . nor are they expected to lay aside matters of common knowledge or their own observations and experience in the affairs of life, but, on the contrary, to apply them to the facts at hand, to the end that their action may be intelligent and the conclusions correct." (internal citations and quotation marks omitted.) State v. Chapman , 46 Conn. App. 24 , 698 A.2d 347 (1997) quoting State v. Cintron , 39 Conn. App. 110 , 118-119 , 665 A.2d 95 , (1995).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There is no legal distinction between direct and circumstantial evidence as far as probative force is concerned. . . . . . . .”
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.