State v. DelVecchio

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• jury instruction using football field metaphor to explain reasonable doubt standard diluted constitutional standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt
• trial court’s charge on reasonable doubt standard must be clear and unequivocal
• no suppression remedy under Connecticut Constitution for secretly recorded statements
• instruction using a football field simile and telling jury “it . . . is up to you to decide” where reasonable doubt lies between fifty yard line, and one hundred yard line held to dilute constitutional standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt
• jury instruction using a football field simile and instructing the jury that “it . . . is up to you to decide” where reasonable doubt lies between the fifty yard line and one hundred yard line diluted the constitutional standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

53 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• State v. Rizzo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-10-14· cited 127×
• State v. Figueroa
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1995-08-15· cited 114×
• State v. Rodgers
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-12-17· cited 113×
• State v. Cooper
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-24· cited 104×
• State v. Ferguson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-05-28· cited 96×
• State v. Carpenter
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-02-27· cited 92×
• State v. Velasco
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-05-16· cited 89×
• State v. Whipper
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-10-02· cited 89×
• State v. Little
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-12-18· cited 83×
• State v. Marra
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-06-01· cited 83×
• Commonwealth v. Schaeffer
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-29· cited 76×
• State v. Findlay
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-01-14· cited 71×
• State v. Ryerson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-09-02· cited 60×
• State v. Simms
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-11-25· cited 60×
• State v. Rollinson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-06-02· cited 60×
• State v. Lamme
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1989-09-05· cited 58×
• State v. Hull
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-03-21· cited 51×
• State v. Griffin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-05-16· cited 49×
• State v. Coleman
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1988-06-14· cited 48×
• State v. Butler
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-05-31· cited 47×

Cites

61 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jackson v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1979-10-01· cited 79,490×
• Chapman v. California
  Supreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
• In Re WINSHIP
  Supreme Court· 1970-05-18· cited 11,712×
• North Carolina v. Pearce
  Supreme Court· 1969-06-23· cited 7,763×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Holland v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1955-01-31· cited 3,238×
• Cupp v. Naughten
  Supreme Court· 1973-12-04· cited 2,639×
• Hoffa v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-12-12· cited 2,107×
• Fisher v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1976-04-21· cited 2,033×
• United States v. Hasting
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-23· cited 1,999×
• Fahy v. Connecticut
  Supreme Court· 1963-12-02· cited 1,743×
• Andresen v. Maryland
  Supreme Court· 1976-06-29· cited 1,306×
• Opper v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1954-12-06· cited 1,280×
• United States v. White
  Supreme Court· 1971-05-17· cited 1,155×
• Lopez v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1963-05-27· cited 983×
• On Lee v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1952-10-13· cited 644×
• Miles v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1881-04-18· cited 245×
• State v. Kurvin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-03-30· cited 191×
• United States v. Bernard J. Coven and James F. O'COnnOr
  Second Circuit· 1981-10-26· cited 154×
• United States v. Myers
  Second Circuit· 1982-09-03· cited 139×