99 Conn. App. 203 - State v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Intent is a mental process, and absent an outright declaration of intent, must be proved through inferences drawn from the actions of an individual, i.e., by circumstantial evidence.... The intent of the actor is a question for the trier of fact, and the conclusion of the trier in this regard should stand unless it is an unreasonable one.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 Conn. App. 304 - State v. Gonzalez

2. “arms so that she could not move and, in response to her statement to [a third party] to telephone the police, stated that he would be able to hit [the victim] before the police arrived.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 Conn. App. 304 - State v. Gonzalez

3. “concluded that the evidence established that at the time of entering the dwelling, [Barnes] intended to commit the crime of assault against [the victim].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 188 Conn. App. 304 - State v. Gonzalez