47 Ohio App. 2d 144 - State v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'it should be made to appear to the court, by preliminary evidence, not only that they were made in articulo mortis (at the point of death), but also made under a sense of impending death, which excluded from the mind of the dying person all hope or expectation of recovery.'”

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

2. “The state of mind of the declarant at the time of his declarations is decisive.”

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