State v. Gribble’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

53 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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““We conclude further that in order to establish a prima facie case on a charge of vehicle overload it is also incumbent upon the state to prove that the scale used in weighing the vehicle had affixed to it the type of official seal customarily employed by municipal, county or state sealers in the performance of their duties under R.C. 4513.33, which provides in pertinent part: “ ‘Any police officer having reason to believe that the weight of a vehicle and its load is unlawful may require the driver of said vehicle to stop and submit to a weighing of it by means of a compact, self-contained, portable, sealed scale specially adapted to determine the wheel loads of vehicles on highways * * *. All scales used in determining the lawful weight of a vehicle and its load shall be annually compared by a municipal, county, or state sealer with the state standards * * * and such scales shall not be sealed if they do not conform to the state standards * * ” State v. Gribble (1970), 24 Ohio St.2d 85, 88 , 53 O.O.2d 222, 223 , 263 N.E.2d 904, 906 .”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Elyria v. Swagger · 135 Ohio App. 3d 164 - State v. Thompson

2. “In the prosecution of a criminal case, it is not essential that the venue of the crime be proved in express terms, provided it be established by all the facts and circumstances, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the crime was committed in the county and state as alleged in the affidavit. * * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 47 Ohio App. 3d 145 - State v. Vrona