76 Ohio App. 3d 633 - State v. Mullins’s Empirical Analysis

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5 federal appellate · 27 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The doctrine of transferred intent indicates that where an individual is attempting to harm one person and as a result accidentally harms another, the intent to harm the first person is transferred to the second person and the individual attempting harm is held criminally liable as if he both intended to harm and did harm the same person.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sullivan, 07ap-247 (2-5-2008) · State v. Howard, Unpublished Decision (11-27-2007)

2. “The doctrine [of transferred intent] has been applied for many years in Ohio but has apparently been removed by the legislature from application in aggravated murder cases. In revising R.C. 2903.01(D), the legislature [enacted the text at issue]... The legislature did not remove the doctrine of transferred intent from application in determining the absence or presence of purpose to kill in murder, as opposed to aggravated murder, convictions. The limitation of the legislative reference to aggravated murder implies to a point that the legislature intended for the doctrine of transferred intent to have applicability in situations involving lesser crimes such as murder.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Richey v. Mitchell

3. “the proximity of the victim and the knowledge of the perpetrator about the ultimate victim are immaterial”

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