27 Ohio App. 2d 9 - State v. Simones’s Empirical Analysis

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

1. ““ * * * Plainly the guiding hand of counsel at the preliminary hearing is essential to protect the indigent accused against an erroneous or improper prosecution. First, the lawyer’s skilled examination and cross-examination of witnesses may expose fatal weaknesses in the State’s case that may lead the magistrate to refuse to bind the accused over. Second, in any event, the skilled interrogation of witnesses by an experienced lawyer can fashion a vital impeachment tool for use in cross-examination of the State’s witnesses at the trial, or preserve testimony favorable to the accused of a witness who does not appear at the trial. Third, trained counsel can more effectively discover the ease the State has against his client and make possible the preparation of a proper defense to meet that case at the trial.- Fourth, counsel can also be influential at the preliminary hearing in making effective arguments for the accused on such matters as the necessity for an early psychiatric examination or bail.” Coleman , at p. 9.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clinton v. Municipal Court of Girard

2. ““It is apparent from a reading of the Coleman ease that the preliminary hearing procedure in Ohio is much like that in Alabama and that the preliminary hearing as such, in Ohio is, therefore, a critical stage of Ohio’s criminal process at which the accused is entitled to counsel..” State v. Simones, supra, at p. 12 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clinton v. Municipal Court of Girard