State v. Connelly’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Duperry v. Solnit (2002), Connelly v. Commissioner of Correction (2001)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Faretta v. California · Wainwright v. Sykes · Fay v. Noia · State v. Golding
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process requires, however, that information be considered only if it has some minimal indicium of reliability. . . . A court should refrain from comments that find no basis in the record. Nonetheless, the mere reference to information outside of the record does not require a sentence to be set aside unless the defendant shows: (1) that the information was materially false or unreliable; and (2) that the trial court substantially relied on the information in determining the sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he trial Court did not improperly admit the letter from the defendant's aunt. The defendant has not shown that the material contained in the letter was false or unreliable, nor has the defendant shown that the trial Court substantially relied on it in determining his sentence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Habeas courts often order new trials in cases where petitioners have been convicted in trials tainted by ineffective assistance of counsel.”
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.