Sims v. Engle’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 federal appellate · 2 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “to make a finding of delinquency that is, that the child has committed the alleged offenses, based on a full investigation of the facts.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Key v. Carlton · Keener v. Taylor

2. “not limited in scope by statute to a preliminary or probable cause hearing ...”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Engle v. Sims · Keener v. Taylor

3. “In any case involving a delinquent child under sections 2151.01 to 2151.54, inclusive, of the Revised Code, who has committed an act which could be a felony if committed by an adult, the juvenile judge, after full investigation and after a mental and physical examination of such child has been made by the bureau of juvenile research, or by some other public or private agency, or by a person qualified to make such examination, may order that such child enter into a recognizance with good and sufficient surety, subject to the approval of the judge, for his appearance before the court of common pleas at the next term thereof, for such disposition as the court of common pleas is authorized to make for a like act committed by an adult; or the judge may exercise the other powers conferred in such sections in disposing of such case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Engle v. Sims