State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently November 2022
17 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. Figueroa · State v. Marra · State v. Pollitt · Neri v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company · State v. Silveira
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [petitioner] and the victim, Christopher Gills, had been friends for years, but they became estranged about two months before the shooting. On June 28, 1994, the night before the shooting, the defendant went to the victim's mother's house searching for him. In a discussion with Kevin Walker, a friend of the victim, the [petitioner], who had a gun, told Walker that he was going to shoot the victim when he found him. About noon on June 29, 1994, the [petitioner] was at a car wash on Homestead Avenue, near the corner of Woodland Street in Hartford. Seeing the victim driving by, the [petitioner] flagged him down. The victim, who was with Damion Bullock, pulled the car over, exited and began talking to the [petitioner]. Bullock remained in the passenger seat of the car. At that point, the [petitioner] displayed a gun that he had wrapped in a shirt. The victim went back to his car, reached under the seat and brought out a gun. The victim laid the gun on the roof of his car and CT Page 565 put his hand over the gun. The [petitioner] reached back to get the clip for his gun from another man who was standing nearby. When the [petitioner] removed the shirt that was covering the gun, Bullock exited the car and fled. The [petitioner] and the victim continued to argue as they moved into the street. The victim began to walk backward, with his palms facing forward and his elbows back. At that moment, there was nothing in the victim's hands. The [petitioner] fired three shots and the vic”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The trial court should not submit to the jury any issue that is foreign to the facts in evidence or for which no evidence was offered.... In reviewing a claim that there was insufficient evidence to support an instruction, the reviewing court must consider the evidence in the light most favorable to upholding the instruction.... The question on appeal is whether, viewing the evidence in this light, it was sufficient to support a reasonable inference that the physical force employed by the defendant was the product of an agreement not authorized by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A jury instruction regarding the combat by agreement exception to self-defense is warranted when the evidence is sufficient to support a reasonable inference that such a mutual combat occurred .... The agreement required by ... § 53a-19(c)(3) need not be formal or express .... Such an agreement may be tacit and inferred from the facts and circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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