142 Ohio App. 3d 65 - State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

37 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In any criminal case in which the defendant's motive or intent, the absence of mistake or accident on his part, or the defendant's scheme, plan, or system in doing an act is material, any acts of the defendant which tend to show his motive or intent, the absence of mistake or accident on his part, or the defendant's scheme, plan or system in doing the act in question may be proved, whether they are contemporaneous with or prior or subsequent thereto, notwithstanding that such proof may show or tend to show the commission of another crime by the defendant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 152 Ohio App. 3d 629 - State v. Condon · State v. Meddock

2. “as a response to improper hearsay, the state is urging the 'open door' theory as a means to justify the state's introduction of improper, highly prejudicial hearsay evidence for the first time.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. A.W.M. · State v. McArthur, 2006-L-260 (12-28-2007)

3. “so long as there was substantial other evidence to support the guilty verdict.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sims, Unpublished Decision (4-28-2005) · State v. Tucker, Unpublished Decision (10-7-2004)