State v. Kluttz’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably West Haven Sound Development Corp. v. City of West Haven (1988), State v. Arline (1992)
76 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 North Carolina v. Pearce · Missouri v. Hunter · Beck v. Alabama · Whalen v. United States · Albernaz v. United States
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The term offense means any crime or violation which constitutes a breach of any law of this state or of any other state or of federal law or local law or ordinance of a political subdivision of this state, for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment or to a fine, or both, may be imposed, except one that defines a motor vehicle violation or is deemed to be an infraction . . . (Emphasis added).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An offense for which a person may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than one year is a misdemeanor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“General Statutes §§ 53a-28 through 53a-44 are the sections of the [P]enal [C]ode which, inter alia, set out the authorized sentences for the classified and unclassified offenses (i.e., felonies, misdemeanors and violations) and provide for such sentencing mechanisms as probation, conditional discharge and unconditional discharge. [Section 53a-24 (b)] would be rendered meaningless by the state's analysis, since `motor vehicle violations,' within the meaning of ... § 53a-24 (a), could only be transgressions carrying a fine. Yet, the purpose of [§ 53a-24 (b)] is to make clear that `the sentencing principles enumerated in sections 53a-28 to 53a-44, inclusive, shall apply to motor vehicle violations.' Commission to Revise the Criminal Statutes, Penal Code Comments, [Conn. Gen.Stat. Ann. § 53a-24], p. 8. There would be no purpose served by legislatively authorizing the application of sentencing provisions of the [P]enal [C]ode, i.e., suspension of execution of sentences of imprisonment conditioned on terms of probation and conditional discharge, to a `motor vehicle violation' if a `motor vehicle violation' consisted only of statutes authorizing punishment by a fine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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