154 Ohio App. 3d 631 - State v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “does not arise until the trial court decides to incarcerate the offender for failure to pay.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Swift, Unpublished Decision (4-1-2005) · State v. Swift, Unpublished Decision (4-1-2005)

2. “(B) At the hearing, the offender has the right to be represented by counsel and to testify and present evidence as to the offender's ability to pay the fine. If a court or magistrate determines after considering the evidence presented by an offender, that the offender is able to pay the fine, the determination shall be supported by findings of fact set forth in a judgment entry that indicates the offender's income, assets, and debt, as presented by the offender, and the offender's ability to pay. {¶ 13}”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Swift, Unpublished Decision (4-1-2005) · State v. Swift, Unpublished Decision (4-1-2005)

3. “(D) No person shall be ordered to be committed to a jail or workhouse or otherwise be held in custody in satisfaction of a fine imposed as the whole or a part of a sentence except as provided in this section. Any person imprisoned pursuant to this section shall receive credit upon the fine at the rate of fifty dollars per day or fraction of a day. If the unpaid fine is less than fifty dollars, the person shall be imprisoned one day.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Swift, Unpublished Decision (4-1-2005) · State v. Swift, Unpublished Decision (4-1-2005)