Comeau v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2022
16 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 Strickland v. Washington · Francis v. Franklin · Connecticut v. Johnson · Ferrell v. Baxter · Christie v. State
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The legislature's] reason for [including a requirement] of an actual endangerment . in the negligent driving [statute] is obvious: . the added requirement of actual endangerment is necessary to protect against the possibility that a prosecution for negligent driving-a relatively serious infraction-might be based merely upon commission of some less serious traffic offense. Without the actual endangerment requirement, for example, a driver who exceeded the speed limit by five miles per hour on an empty stretch of highway would be subject to prosecution and conviction for negligent driving.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burnett v. State“[A] person acts “recklessly” with respect to a result or to a circumstance ... when the person is aware of and consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the result will occur or that the circumstance exists; the risk must be of such a nature and degree that disregard of it constitutes a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the situation[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dolchok v. State“a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe.”
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.