State v. Abney’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 2017
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Emigrant Savings Bank v. Cam · Gordon v. Tobias · Blais v. the Beacon Mutual Ins. Company · State v. Meehan · State v. Coleman
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under our Penal Code, self-defense, as defined in [General Statutes] § 53a-19 (a)... is a defense, rather than an affirmative defense. ... That is, [the defendant] merely is required to introduce sufficient evidence to warrant presenting his claim of self-defense to the jury. ... Once the defendant has done so, it becomes the state's burden to disprove the defense beyond a reasonable doubt. ... As these principles indicate, therefore, only the state has a burden of persuasion regarding a self-defense claim: it must disprove the claim beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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