Supreme Court of Connecticut· 4/11/1989
State v. Torres
Citations
- 210 Conn. 631
- 556 A.2d 1013
- 1989 Conn. LEXIS 98
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- where fundamental right is violated, burden is on state and not defendant to prove, for example, harmless impropriety
- state required to prove harmlessness where the court made a series of fundamentally unfair evidentiary rulings, escalating the error to a constitutional violation
- improper exclusion of prior inconsistent statements proffered by defendant was error that “escalated to constitutional proportions” because trial court’s ruling was not “evenhanded”
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Judges: Healey
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29 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- State v. JoynerSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-05-04· cited 123×
- State v. TatumSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1991-07-30· cited 121×
- State v. FergusonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-05-28· cited 96×
- State v. BolesSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-08-18· cited 89×
- Hall v. Gilbert & Bennett Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-06-03· cited 82×
- State v. SaurisSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-08-24· cited 81×
- Hummel v. Marten Transports, Ltd.Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2007-05-22· cited 70×
- State v. LapointeSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-07-16· cited 70×
- State v. RolonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 2001-07-31· cited 69×
- State v. ValentineSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1997-04-15· cited 63×
- New England Savings Bank v. Bedford Realty Corp.Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-08-13· cited 57×
- State v. RichardsonSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-05-01· cited 50×
- State v. RiveraSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-01-28· cited 46×
- State v. CECIL J.Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2009-06-02· cited 42×
- State v. StangeSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-08-15· cited 37×
- Gold v. WardenSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1992-06-09· cited 27×
- State v. GrahamConnecticut Appellate Court· 1990-06-05· cited 21×
- State v. LewisConnecticut Appellate Court· 2002-01-22· cited 20×
- State v. SpiegelmannConnecticut Appellate Court· 2004-02-10· cited 20×
- State v. PruttingConnecticut Appellate Court· 1996-01-23· cited 18×
Cites
32 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Chapman v. CaliforniaSupreme Court· 1967-03-27· cited 23,069×
- Chambers v. MississippiSupreme Court· 1973-02-21· cited 5,756×
- Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court· 1980-06-25· cited 5,425×
- California v. GreenSupreme Court· 1970-06-23· cited 3,363×
- Lisenba v. CaliforniaSupreme Court· 1942-02-02· cited 1,400×
- State v. WhelanSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1986-08-05· cited 393×
- California v. TybergSupreme Court· 1986-12-01· cited 383×
- State v. StepneySupreme Court of Connecticut· 1983-08-30· cited 222×
- St. Luke's Hospital Ass'n v. United StatesSupreme Court· 1965-01-18· cited 151×
- State v. RuthSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-06-10· cited 127×
- State v. HernandezSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-14· cited 122×
- United States v. RagenSupreme Court· 1942-02-02· cited 110×
- State v. PollittSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-08-25· cited 108×
- State v. MastropetreSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1978-08-01· cited 100×
- State v. FernandezSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-12-10· cited 89×
- State v. BryantSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-03-24· cited 88×
- State v. VillafaneSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1976-09-21· cited 79×
- State v. BinetSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1984-04-10· cited 76×
- State v. JonesSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-01-05· cited 74×
- State v. DeFreitasSupreme Court of Connecticut· 1980-01-08· cited 70×
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