110 Ohio App. 222 - State v. Cosby’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]ter pressure from the multitude, the defendants were indicted and tried some five years after the supposed death of Colvin. The case was tried and a judgment of guilty was entered on circumstantial evidence and confessions of the defendants. Before the sentences of death were executed, the supposed deceased was returned to the jurisdiction of the court trying the case whereupon the defendants were discharged.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. S.H. v. State · 264 So. 3d 1042 - S.H. v. State

2. “Many times such confessions were induced by fear of the multitude, sometimes by a sense of grandeur, the desire to attract attention and the like.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. S.H. v. State · 264 So. 3d 1042 - S.H. v. State