62 Ohio App. 3d 396 - State v. Giffin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ * * * In any trial, in any court, the party accused shall be allowed * * * a speedy public trial by an impartial jury of the county in which the offense is alleged to have been committed * * “(A) The trial of a criminal case in this state shall be held in a court having jurisdiction of the subject matter, and in the territory of which the offense or any element of the offense was committed.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 112 Ohio App. 3d 124 - State v. Grinnell · State v. Mielke

2. ““(C) When the offense involved the unlawful taking or receiving of property or the unlawful taking or enticing of another, the offender may be tried in any jurisdiction from which or into which the property or victim was taken, received, or enticed. (( * * * “(H) When an offender, as part of a course of criminal conduct, commits offenses in different jurisdictions, he may be tried for all of those offenses in any jurisdiction in which one of those offenses or any element of one of those offenses occurred. Without limitation on the evidence that may be used to establish such course of criminal conduct, any of the following is prima-facie evidence of a course of criminal conduct; “(1) The offenses involved the same victim, or victims of the same type or from the same group. “(2) The offenses were committed by the offender in his same employment, or capacity, or relationship to another. “(3) The offenses were committed as part of the same transaction or chain of events, or in furtherance of the same purpose or objective. “(4) The offenses were committed in furtherance of the same conspiracy. “(5) The offenses involved the same or a similar modus operandi. “(6) The offenses were committed along the offender’s line of travel in this state, regardless of his point of origin or destination.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Ohio App. 3d 470 - State v. Haddix

3. “for purposes of proving the enterprise element of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity under R.C. 2923.32(A)(1). Id. at ¶ 28. The Fifth Appellate District recognized that mere interdependence of criminals is insufficient to establish an enterprise in the absence of a”

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