State v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

158 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 158 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen a trial court fails to include a mandatory driver's license suspension as part of an offender's sentence, that part of the sentence [is] void. Resentencing of the offender is limited to the imposition of the mandatory driver's license suspension.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. White · State v. Briggs

2. “(A) No conduct constitutes a criminal offense against the state unless it is defined as an offense in the Revised Code. (B) An offense is defined when one or more sections of the Revised Code state a positive prohibition or enjoin a specific duty, and provide a penalty for violation of such prohibition or failure to meet such duty.”

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

3. “Our decision today is limited to a discrete vein of cases: those in which a court does not properly impose a statutorily mandated period of postrelease control”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. VanCleve