State v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 federal appellate · 398 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 400 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Any attempt by a court to disregard statutory requirements when imposing a sentence renders the attempted sentence a nullity or void.”

   39 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Hill, C-060727 (6-22-2007) · State v. James, Ca2008-04-037 (3-30-2009)

2. “The function and duty of a court is to apply the law as written.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Ramey, Unpublished Decision (12-7-2006) · State v. Jackson, Unpublished Decision (3-29-2007)

3. ““[T]he suspension of a correctly imposed sentence is different from the failure to impose a required sentence; however the end results are the same. * * * Just as the United States Supreme Court has prohibited circumvention of statutory sentencing requirements by indefinitely suspending a sentence, we feel that that court would prohibit circumvention of a statutory sentencing requirement by a trial court’s failure to originally impose a correct sentence.” (Emphasis added.) 14 Ohio St.3d at 76 , 14 OBR at 512-513, 471 N.E.2d at 775 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 111 Ohio App. 3d 510 - State v. Thomas