State v. Maldonado’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2013
11 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. DeAngelis · State v. Chance · Feigenbaum v. City of Waterbury · Bank of Boston Connecticut v. Avon Meadow Associates · State v. Gates
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Several hours later, the defendant retrieved a sawed-off shotgun from a garage near his apartment and went to the grocery store. As the defendant approached, he observed Rivera come out of the store and then go back inside. After the defendant entered the store he and Rivera struggled over the shotgun and one round was fired into the floor. Rivera then fled with the defendant in pursuit. The defendant, then shot Rivera as Rivera yelled: "My son, my son." The defendant fired a second time, hitting Rivera and causing him to fall to the ground. The defendant then approached Rivera, reloaded the shotgun with two more cartridges and shot Rivera once in the head, saying: "So you stop screwing around with women." Later that day, the defendant went grocery shopping with a friend. When they finished shopping, they drank beer and smoked marijuana together. The defendant, who had talked about the shooting, admitted to his friend on the following morning that he had committed the murder. He thereafter went to New Jersey, where he worked at an auto body shop using a different name. In January, 1995, the defendant was arrested and returned to Connecticut where, after voluntarily waiving his right to remain silent, he gave an oral and written confession in which he admitted to the killing.”
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.