Vaughn v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

505 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 508 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The purpose of an indictment is to inform the accused of the crime with which he is charged Weaver v. Sacks, Warden, 173 Ohio St. 415 . It is not necessary to use the exact words of the statute. “Section 2907.14, Revised Code, as in effect in 1958, read in part as follows: “ ‘No person shall, by day or night, maliciously enter a bank or other financial institution which receives upon deposit or otherwise for safekeeping the moneys or public funds of individuals or corporations, and attempt to commit or commit a felony with firearms or other deadly weapons.’ “A building and loan company receives on deposit or otherwise moneys of individuals. Thus, a building and loan company is a financial institution within the meaning of Section 2907.14, Revised Code, and inasmuch as the exact institution involved was named, petitioner was fully informed of the crime for which he was charged. Petitioner’s argument in this respect is not well taken.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 29 Ohio App. 2d 105 - State v. Flowers