State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[W]hen determining both a defendant's specific intent to agree and his specific intent that the criminal acts be performed, the jury may rely on reasonable inferences from facts in the evidence and may develop a chain of inferences, each link of which may depend for its validity on the validity of the prior link in the chain.... Accordingly, the defendant's state of mind may be proven by his conduct before, during and after the shooting.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Conn. App. 409 - State v. Raynor

2. “and agreed with the shooter to commit assault in the first degree. In support of this position, he argues that the record lacks any evidence that he entered into an agreement with the shooter, or that he ordered or encouraged the shooter to commit the crime of assault in the first degree. Moreover, the defendant contends that there was a substantial lapse of time between his alleged statement to Doster about”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Conn. App. 409 - State v. Raynor

3. “[W]e do not ask whether there is a reasonable view of the evidence that would support a reasonable hypothesis of innocence. We ask, instead, whether there is a reasonable view of the evidence that supports the jury's verdict of guilty.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 175 Conn. App. 409 - State v. Raynor