4 Ohio App. 3d 301 - State v. Bayless’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. “A victim impact statement prepared under this section shall be kept confidential and is not a public record as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code. However, the court may furnish copies of the statement to both the defendant or the defendant's counsel and the prosecuting attorney.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Masterson, 90505 (9-18-2008)

2. ““Except in cases of aggravated murder, the report of the presentence investigation shall be confidential and need not be furnished to the defendant or his counsel or the prosecuting attorney unless the court, in its discretion, so orders.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 20 Ohio App. 3d 65 - State v. Stern

3. “no evidence that materially false or clearly erroneous information [was] in * * * the victim impact statement, or that such false or erroneous information was relied upon”

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