State v. Lopez

How courts have described this case

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

• “[a] proponent’s burden is to demonstrate a diligent and reasonable effort, not to do everything conceivable, to secure the witness’ presence”
• “it is within the discretion of the trial court to accept or to reject the proponent’s representations regarding the unavailability of a declarant and the trial court’s ruling will generally not be disturbed unless the court has abused its discretion”
• \it is within the discretion of the trial court to accept or to reject the proponent's representations regarding the unavailability of a declarant and the trial court's ruling will generally not be disturbed unless the court has abused its discretion\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Hines
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-03-03· cited 182×
• Binette v. Sabo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-03-10· cited 161×
• State v. Schiappa
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-03-23· cited 122×
• State v. Lewis
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1998-08-04· cited 93×
• State v. Taylor
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-12-31· cited 88×
• State v. Rivera
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-04-06· cited 85×
• Skakel v. State
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-04-20· cited 37×
• In Re Tayler F.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-08· cited 32×
• State v. Christian
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1998-11-10· cited 28×
• Morant v. State
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2002-02-12· cited 23×
• State v. Lopez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-08-15· cited 18×
• State v. Lebrick
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-01-28· cited 17×
• State v. Wright
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2008-04-15· cited 14×
• State v. Miller
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1999-12-21· cited 14×
• State v. Michael T.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-12-03· cited 10×
• State v. Bryant
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2001-02-06· cited 10×
• State v. Freeman
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-08-30· cited 7×
• Ferris v. Faford
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2006-02-14· cited 6×
• State v. Lopez
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1999-07-13· cited 3×
• State v. Freeman (Dissent)
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-08-30

Cites

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

• Chambers v. Mississippi
  Supreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
• Dunham v. Dunham
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-07· cited 301×
• United States v. David Guillette and Robert Joost
  Second Circuit· 1976-12-20· cited 203×
• United States v. Christos Potamitis, Eddie Argitakos, and Steve Argitakos
  Second Circuit· 1984-07-10· cited 169×
• United States v. Jose Luis Oropeza and Mark James Minton
  Ninth Circuit· 1977-11-08· cited 128×
• State v. Hernandez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-14· cited 122×
• State v. Gold
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-05-15· cited 118×
• State v. Hamilton
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1994-01-11· cited 100×
• State v. Onofrio
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1979-09-04· cited 97×
• State v. Boles
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-08-18· cited 89×
• State v. Bryant
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-03-24· cited 88×
• State v. Torrence
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-06-11· cited 86×
• United States v. Luis Alvaro Hoyos
  Ninth Circuit· 1978-04-24· cited 81×
• State v. Duntz
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-07-28· cited 81×
• State v. Aillon
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-03-03· cited 73×
• State v. DeFreitas
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-01-08· cited 70×
• State v. Nielsen
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1993-06-17· cited 62×
• State v. Stallings
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1966-11-29· cited 61×
• State v. Rosado
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-04-02· cited 53×
• State v. Frye
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-12-16· cited 47×