State v. Scruggs

How courts have described this case

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

• ‘‘[r]eferences to judicial opinions involving the statute, the common law, legal dictionaries, or treatises may be necessary to ascertain a statute’s meaning to determine if it gives fair warning’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• under claim of insufficient evidence, ‘‘in order for any appellate theory to withstand scrutiny . . . it must be shown to be not merely before the jury due to an incidental reference, but as part of a coherent theory of guilt’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• State v. Courchesne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2010-06-15· cited 86×
• State v. Campbell
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2018-01-26· cited 64×
• Kaczynski v. Kaczynski
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-11-10· cited 35×
• State v. Skidd
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2007-09-25· cited 28×
• State v. Maurice M.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-11-29· cited 23×
• State v. Lamont Fields
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2011-08-30· cited 19×
• State v. CLIFTON OWENS
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2007-04-17· cited 15×
• State v. James E.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2017-12-12· cited 13×
• State v. Adgers
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2007-05-08· cited 10×
• State v. Michael T.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2019-12-03· cited 10×
• State v. MAURICE M.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2009-07-28· cited 7×
• State v. Aziegbemi
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2008-11-18· cited 7×
• State v. LEGRAND
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-06-07· cited 5×
• Klein v. Norwalk Hospital
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2009-04-21· cited 3×
• State v. Hector M.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2014-02-25· cited 3×
• State v. Charles L.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2023-01-24· cited 3×
• State v. Stephen G.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2009-04-14· cited 2×
• State v. Alicea
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-06-23· cited 2×
• State v. Mansfield
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2011-05-03· cited 1×
• State v. Jodi D.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2021-08-31· cited 1×

Cites

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

• State v. Golding
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-12-19· cited 2,736×
• Jacobellis v. Ohio
  Supreme Court· 1964-06-22· cited 1,335×
• Doyle v. Texas Department of Protective & Regulatory Services
  Tex. App. Ct., 8th Dist. (El Paso)· 2000-05-03· cited 177×
• State v. Padua
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-03-29· cited 162×
• State v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-05-06· cited 102×
• State v. Schriver
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-05-17· cited 97×
• Larobina v. McDonald
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-07-12· cited 87×
• State v. Romero
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-06-08· cited 84×
• State v. Sorabella
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-02-07· cited 79×
• State v. Cavallo
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-08-05· cited 65×
• State v. McClary
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-04-26· cited 60×
• State v. Higgins
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2003-07-29· cited 60×
• Neil R. Cola v. Charles H. Reardon, Sheriff of Essex County
  First Circuit· 1986-03-26· cited 53×
• State v. Robert H.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2005-03-08· cited 41×
• Graff v. Zoning Board of Appeals
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-04-11· cited 39×
• State v. Velez
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1988-12-13· cited 27×
• State v. Palangio
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1991-03-26· cited 26×
• State v. Torrice
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1989-09-19· cited 25×
• In the Interest of D. S.
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1995-03-17· cited 20×
• State v. Guitard
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2001-01-30· cited 20×