71 Conn. App. 217 - State v. Colon’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Williams (2004), State v. Gibson (2003)
57 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. Golding · Emigrant Savings Bank v. Cam · State v. Montgomery · State v. Whipper · State v. Payne
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where discovery concerns inculpatory evidence, there exists no constitutional right to the disclosure of such evidence and, therefore, the rules of the court regulate any such disclosure.... In that event, [t]he trial court has broad discretion in applying sanctions for failure to comply with discovery orders.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]e are not at liberty to overrule or discard the decisions of our Supreme Court but are bound by them. . . . Thus, it is not within our province to reevaluate or replace those decisions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Right v. Breen“[t]he purpose of criminal discovery is to prevent surprise and to afford the parties a reasonable opportunity to prepare for trial.”
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.