State v. Brimacombe’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

137 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 137 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'A sentencing court has broad discretion to determine the relative weight to assign the sentencing factors in R.C. 2929.12.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Muhammad · State v. J.L.H.

2. “SPECIFICATION (or SPECIFICATION TO THE FIRST COUNT). The grand jurors (or insert the person's or prosecuting attorney's name when appropriate) further find and specify that (set forth the alleged offender's interest in the property, a description of the property subject to forfeiture, and any alleged use or intended use of the property in the commission or facilitation of the offense).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Schmidt

3. “the complaint charging the offenses contained no specification covering property subject to forfeiture under section 2981.02 of the Revised Code. Given this deficiency, the trial court has no authority to order the handgun forfeited.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Bolton