State v. McComb’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Rather, a prior juvenile adjudication and conviction are treated as alternative elements necessary to establish the offense of having weapons while under disability. Hand does not ban the use of a prior juvenile adjudication as an element of an offense; rather, Hand bans the use of a juvenile adjudication to enhance a penalty by treating the adjudication as an adult conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re: C.W.

2. “'it is fundamentally unfair to treat a juvenile adjudication as a previous conviction that enhances either the degree of or the sentence for a subsequent offense committed as an adult.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re: C.W.

3. “[u]nlike the statute that was struck down in Hand , the statute at issue, R.C. 2923.13(A)(2), does not treat a prior juvenile adjudication as a conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re: C.W.