60 Ohio App. 2d 45 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

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19 state decisions

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

1. “"As elaborated hereafter, the evidence was overwhelming that the blows Baum received from appellant were the cause of his death. What Dr. Walus did was to cease administering extraordinary measures to preserve life. His act could not conceivably be deemed the sole proximate cause of Baum's death. It would have to have been such for the court to find it an independent intervening cause as a matter of law. ... . "Both witnesses who testified as medical experts for the state agreed on the cause of death. Dr. Walus stated that Baum died from `massive head trauma.' Dr. Robert Ritterhoff, the deputy coroner of Hamilton County and the individual who performed the autopsy on Baum, testified that the cause of death was `skull fracture * * * caused by external force.' At the time of the autopsy, which was conducted less than three hours after Baum's death, Dr. Ritterhoff `* * * saw a dead brain that had been dead for some days.' His conclusion, brought out on cross-examination, was that the discontinuance of supplemental oxygen to Baum was not a cause of death. Dr. Ritterhoff's unequivocal and uncontradicted testimony was sufficient to establish the necessary causal connection between appellant's criminal act and Baum's death... . "... One who has inflicted an injury upon another is criminally responsible for his death, despite the fact that different or more skillful medical treatment might have saved his life, or that death was immediately caused by a surgical operation rendered nece”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 399 So. 2d 1346 - Cowan v. State

2. “As elaborated hereafter, the evidence was overwhelming that the blows Baum received from appellant were the cause of his death. What Dr. Walus did was to cease administering extraordinary measures to preserve life. His act could not conceivably be deemed the sole proximate cause of Baum's death. It would have to have been such for the court to find it an independent intervening cause as a matter of law. ... .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 399 So. 2d 1346 - Cowan v. State

3. “To sum up, we conclude that no act of Dr. Walus either in operating or in stopping the supplemental oxygen supply was, as a matter of law, an independent intervening cause so as to require the granting of appellant's motion to acquit. We further conclude that there was ample evidence of probative value to support the jury's conclusion that the acts of appellant were the proximate cause of Baum's death. .. .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 399 So. 2d 1346 - Cowan v. State