Adams v. Kasich’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 federal appellate · 1 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “agree[s] with the district court that the State should do what it agreed to do: in other words it should adhere to the execution protocol it adopted.... [Whether slight or significant deviations from the protocol occur, the State’s ongoing conduct requires the federal courts to monitor every execution on an ad hoc basis, because the State cannot be trusted to fulfill its otherwise lawful duty to execute inmates sentenced to death.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 906 F. Supp. 2d 759 - In re Ohio Execution Protocol Litigation