State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

16 federal appellate · 73 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 93 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a] jury can infer an aider and abettor's purpose to kill where the facts show that the participants in a felony entered into a common design and either the aider or abettor knew that an inherently dangerous instrumentality was to be employed to accomplish the felony or the felony and the manner of its accomplishment would be reasonably likely to produce death.”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Terrance Drake v. Superintendent, Trumbull Correctional Institution · 5 Ohio App. 3d 13 - State v. Mabry

2. “An express written or oral statement of waiver of the right to remain silent or the right to counsel is usually strong proof of the validity of that waiver, but is not inevitably either necessary or sufficient to establish waiver. The question is not one of form, but rather whether the defendant in fact knowingly and voluntarily waived the rights delineated in Miranda.”

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

3. ““(A) No person, acting with the kind of culpability required for the commission of an offense, shall do any of the following: (I* * * “(2) Aid or abet another in committing the offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Ohio App. 3d 13 - State v. Mabry