32 Ohio App. 2d 284 - State v. Clifton’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 21 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[O]ne who kills in self-defense does so without the mens rea that otherwise would render him culpable of the homicide.... However, if A had no criminal intent with respect to B, as where A is exercising a lawful right of self-defense, [no criminal intent] could exist as to C. It follows, then, that A in shooting C has not committed a criminal act, the essential [sic] of a mens rea being impossible of proof. The inquiry must be whether the killing would have been justifiable if the accused had killed the person whom he intended to kill, as the unintended act derives its character from the intended.”

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

2. “while the defendant had No. 19AP-574 14 his back turned, the elder brother struck him on the shoulder with a belt, the buckle of which left a discernible mark upon the flesh.”

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

3. “one who kills in self-defense does so without the mens rea that otherwise would render him culpable of the homicide”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Engle v. Isaac