State v. Mack

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting challenge to such instructions as “ ‘totally without merit’ ”
• “[a court’s] comments or questions for the purpose of clarifying . . . testimony are permissible and often necessary”
• \[a court's] comments or questions for the purpose of clarifying ... testimony are permissible and often necessary\
• “[a court’s] comments or questions for the purpose of clarifying . . . testimony are permissible and often necessary”
• no abuse of discretion where court’s questions “can reasonably be viewed as intended to clear up a possible misunderstanding by the jury”
• the court was convinced that the evidence of the guilt was overwhelming where the defendant was recognized during the course of the robbery by victims who knew him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Tillman
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-12-03· cited 86×
• State v. IBAN C.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-10-04· cited 67×
• State v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-01-25· cited 62×
• State v. Brown
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-03-04· cited 55×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-12-30· cited 51×
• State v. Coleman
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1988-06-14· cited 48×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-11-19· cited 47×
• State v. Robertson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-10-17· cited 47×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-07-22· cited 39×
• State v. Kendall
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2010-09-14· cited 32×
• State v. Higgins
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-12-02· cited 23×
• State v. Scarpiello
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1996-01-30· cited 23×
• State v. Boone
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1988-06-21· cited 22×
• State v. Young
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-12-22· cited 22×
• State v. Graham
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1990-06-05· cited 21×
• State v. Tyson
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1996-09-10· cited 20×
• State v. Pharr
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1997-04-01· cited 20×
• State v. Arroyo
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1988-03-29· cited 19×
• State v. Elson
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2009-08-04· cited 14×
• State v. Harris
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-08-04· cited 13×

Cites

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

• State v. Evans
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1973-06-05· cited 917×
• State v. Kurvin
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-03-30· cited 191×
• State v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-04-24· cited 160×
• State v. Mastropetre
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1978-08-01· cited 100×
• State v. Torrence
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-06-11· cited 86×
• State v. Avcollie
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-12-14· cited 84×
• Krattenstein v. G. Fox & Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1967-12-05· cited 84×
• State v. Echols
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-12-09· cited 67×
• State v. Altrui
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1982-08-17· cited 64×
• State v. Smith
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1951-08-07· cited 64×
• State v. Silver
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1952-11-07· cited 61×
• State v. Cobbs
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1973-03-07· cited 58×
• State v. Maselli
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-08-12· cited 57×
• State v. Townsend
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1975-02-04· cited 54×
• McWilliams v. American Fidelity Co.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1954-01-12· cited 53×
• State v. Guthridge
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1972-12-06· cited 51×
• Hutchinson v. Plante
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1978-04-25· cited 41×
• State v. McCarthy
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-08-20· cited 37×
• State v. Frazier
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-08-14· cited 36×
• Brooks v. Winter
  Supreme Court· 1983-05-16· cited 34×