State v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A comment that the defendant was without a reasonable explanation or had no reasonable explanation to show why he was innocent is not necessarily a comment that the jury would naturally and necessarily interpret as related to the defendant's constitutional and statutory right to decline to testify. A prosecutor also may comment on the failure of a defendant to support his factual theories.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 173 Conn. App. 518 - State v. Joseph R. B.

2. “prosecutor's remarks during ... closing argument were merely an attack on the defendant's theory of defense and not improper comment regarding the defendant's failure to testify”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 181 Conn. App. 535 - State v. Turner

3. “give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 Conn. Super. Ct. 4033 - State v. Hamlin, No. Cr01-552475-T (Mar. 21, 2003)