State v. Long

How courts have described this case

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

• jury’s finding of not guilty of more serious charge indicated that defendant was not prejudiced
• “[a]n improper appeal to the jurors’ emotions can take the form of a personal attack on the defendant’s character”
• “prosecutor . . . is not barred from commenting on the evidence presented at trial or urging the jury to draw reasonable inferences from the evidence that support the state’s theory of the case”
• prosecutor should not be put in rhetorical straightjacket
• prosecutor should not be put in rhetorical straight-jacket
• ‘‘[t]he question of whether the defendant has been prejudiced by prosecutorial [impro- priety] . . . depends on whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the jury’s verdict would have been differ- ent absent the sum total of the improprieties’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• People v. Manyik
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2016-03-24· cited 502×
• State v. Kendall
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-09-14· cited 32×
• State v. Courtney G.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-06-21· cited 30×
• State v. Ortiz
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-06-14· cited 22×
• State v. Nevada R. Ugalde
  Montana Supreme Court· 2013-10-17· cited 21×
• State v. Papandrea
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-09-13· cited 20×
• Kiyon L. Brown
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2014-08-19· cited 18×
• State v. Kantorowski
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2013-07-30· cited 18×
• State v. Diaz
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2024-04-09· cited 17×
• State v. Santiago
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2013-05-28· cited 15×
• State v. Ovechka
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-01-05· cited 14×
• State v. Elmer G.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2019-09-17· cited 14×
• State v. Crump
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2013-09-17· cited 13×
• State v. Papandrea
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-03-30· cited 12×
• State v. Daniel G.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2014-01-21· cited 10×
• State v. Hinds
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-08-30· cited 10×
• State v. Medrano
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-09-20· cited 9×
• State v. Barry A.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2013-09-10· cited 9×
• State v. Jose R.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-03-19· cited 8×
• State v. Francione
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2012-06-19· cited 8×

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Batson v. Kentucky
  Supreme Court· 1986-04-30· cited 16,401×
• Darden v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1986-09-03· cited 4,161×
• State v. Golding
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-12-19· cited 2,736×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-28· cited 498×
• State v. Stevenson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-06-15· cited 228×
• State v. Fauci
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-04-10· cited 161×
• State v. Warholic
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-05-30· cited 150×
• State v. Thompson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-10-28· cited 147×
• State v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-08-15· cited 126×
• State v. Bell
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-09-11· cited 65×
• State v. Burton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-09-25· cited 63×
• Simmons v. Kmart Corp.
  Supreme Court· 2005-01-10· cited 46×
• State v. Ancona
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-08-24· cited 43×
• Murray v. Taylor
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2001-08-28· cited 38×
• State v. Bermudez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-07-26· cited 28×