17 Ohio App. 2d 129 - State v. Speaks’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * # # a prisoner in a penal institution whose sentence is irregular or voidable may not for that reason, and before some court has so adjudged, defy his guards and run away. A difference of opinion might cause a death. Such a doctrine would set discipline at naught. * * We are of opinion that attempts at escape from such institutions are thereby forbidden to all inmates, and that, if they consider their confinement improper, they are bound to take other means to test the question.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 20 Ohio App. 2d 347 - State v. Howard

2. ““The sentence imposed for escape from confinement is not affected by the validity of the sentence being served at the time of the escape, and, where a prisoner considers his confinement improper, he is compelled, in order to test its validity, to follow the procedures which have been set up for that purpose. Under such circumstances the doctrine of self help is not available to him. ’ ’”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 20 Ohio App. 2d 347 - State v. Howard