State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he criminal intent necessary to the existence of the offense is implied in the prohibitive act. This means that no specific intent is required to constitute the offense of kidnapping, but that should you find that the State has proved beyond a reasonable doubt each and every essential element of the crime of kidnapping, . . . the criminal intent of the defendant would then be implied or inferred from such prohibitive acts. State v. Johnson, 44 Ohio Op. 361, 361-62 , 97 N.E.2d 54, 55 (1950).”

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