State v. Weatherspoon

How courts have described this case

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

• deciding it was unnecessary to consider defendant’s request for exercise of supervisory authority because prosecutor’s tailoring argument was specific rather than generic
• declining to establish rule when no such injustice occurred in case
• defense coun- sel’s failure to object to allegedly improper comments is ‘‘a strong indication that they did not carry substantial weight in the course of the trial as a whole and were not so egregious that they caused the defendant harm’’
• ‘‘[w]hile the privilege of coun- sel in addressing the jury should not be too closely narrowed or unduly hampered, it must never be used as a license to state, or to comment [on], or to suggest an inference from, facts not in evidence’’ (internal quo- tation marks omitted)
• providing example of specific tailoring

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

20 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Peo v. Martinez
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 2020-10-08· cited 269×
• State v. Raynor
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-12-04· cited 27×
• State v. Edwards
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-02-25· cited 26×
• State v. Ortiz
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-06-14· cited 22×
• State v. Ashby
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-08-06· cited 19×
• State v. Dabate
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2025-03-11· cited 15×
• State v. Hinds
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-08-30· cited 10×
• State v. Graham
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2022-10-04· cited 8×
• State v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2025-05-20· cited 6×
• State v. Albert D.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2020-03-03· cited 5×
• State v. Marrero
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2020-06-16· cited 5×
• State v. Bember
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2024-06-25· cited 4×
• State v. Wright
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2025-09-16· cited 4×
• State v. Arnold
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2021-07-20· cited 3×
• State v. Stephanie U.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2021-08-24· cited 2×
• State v. Henry B.-A.
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2025-08-05· cited 2×
• Boone v. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2020-05-04
• In re D'Andre T
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2020-11-17
• Grant v. Commissioner of Correction (Dissent)
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 2024-04-23
• State v. Sullivan (Dissent)
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2025-05-20

Cites

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

• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-28· cited 4,680×
• Griffin v. California
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 4,088×
• Illinois v. Allen
  Supreme Court· 1970-04-06· cited 3,248×
• State v. Golding
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1989-12-19· cited 2,736×
• Rock v. Arkansas
  Supreme Court· 1987-06-22· cited 2,329×
• Martinez v. People
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 2010-11-30· cited 767×
• State v. Williams
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-07-28· cited 498×
• Portuondo v. Agard
  Supreme Court· 2000-03-06· cited 329×
• State v. Stevenson
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-06-15· cited 228×
• State v. Singh
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2002-03-26· cited 212×
• State v. Peeler
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2004-10-12· cited 157×
• State v. Payne
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2012-01-24· cited 144×
• State v. Daniels
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2004-12-14· cited 139×
• State v. Swanson
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 2006-01-10· cited 131×
• State v. Alexander
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2000-08-15· cited 126×
• State v. McClain
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2017-03-14· cited 85×
• State v. Cassidy
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1996-02-27· cited 77×
• State v. Paradise
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1990-01-02· cited 75×
• State v. Ritrovato
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 2006-09-26· cited 71×