Connolly v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2022
12 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 United States v. McClain · Evans v. State · Hampton v. State · United States v. Mooney · United States v. Morales
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To charge the trial court with the duty of protecting defendant’s right to receive a limiting instruction, thereby relieving the attorney of that obligation, would be an exercise of role-switching which we are not ready to condone * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rolle v. State · Sybert v. State““When evidence which is admissible as to one (1) party or for one (1) purpose but not admissible as to another party or for another purpose is admitted, the court, upon request, shall restrict the evidence to its proper scope and instruct the jury accordingly.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grabill v. State · Nava v. State““You are instructed that the state must prove every element of each count beyond a reasonable doubt. Evidence of other conduct of the defendant with the alleged victims has been admitted by the court. Such evidence cannot be used to prove the defendant’s character in order to show that he acted in conformity with his character on the occasions of the charged crimes.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brown v. State
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.