155 Ohio App. 3d 448 - State v. Schaefer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

14 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “and the offender is four or more years older than the age the law enforcement officer assumes in posing as the person who is thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen years of age”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bolden, Unpublished Decision (5-7-2004) · State v. Bower, Unpublished Decision (8-15-2005)

2. “Likewise, defendant in this case clearly believed that the person from whom he had solicited sex on the Internet was a 14-year-old girl and that she would meet him for that purpose at a specific location in Brookville. Defendant drove from Troy to Brookville for that meeting. Defendant's trip to Brookville on the date and time planned for their meeting was a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in his commission of the offense and was strongly corroborative of defendant's criminal purpose.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bower, Unpublished Decision (8-15-2005)

3. “It is no defense to a charge under [R.C. 2923.02 (A)] that, in retrospect, commission of the offense that was the object of the attempt was either factually or legally impossible under the attendant circumstances, if that offense could have been committed had the attendant circumstances been as the actor believed them to be.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Ashbrook, Unpublished Decision (2-22-2005)