66 Ohio App. 3d 502 - State v. Gladding’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

18 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Whoever violates this section is guilty of rape, an aggravated felony of the first degree. If the offender under division (A)(1)(b) of this section purposely compels the victim to submit by force or threat of force, whoever violates division (A)(1)(b) of this section shall be imprisoned for life.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 106 Ohio App. 3d 775 - State v. Vaughn

2. “It is generally accepted that punishments which are prohibited by the Eighth Amendment are limited to torture or other barbarous punishments, degrading punishments unknown at common law, and punishments which are so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McConnell, Unpublished Decision (8-13-2004)

3. “considering the heinousness of the crime of raping a nine-year-old child, it cannot be said that appellant's sentence was disproportionate or shocking to the moral sense of the community.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. McConnell, Unpublished Decision (8-13-2004)