8 Ohio App. 3d 1 - State v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[A] criminal statutory presumption must be regarded as ‘irrational’ or ‘arbitrary’ and hence unconstitutional, unless it can at least be said with substantial assurance that the presumed fact is more likely than not to flow from the proved fact on which it is made to depend* * *” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 52 Ohio App. 3d 78 - State v. Swanson

2. “[i]f the prosecutor should make an admission of fact which shows that no crime had been committed, or that the accused was not guilty of the -6- Brown CA2013-02-001 crime charged, doubtless the court would be justified in sustaining a motion to discharge the accused.”

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

3. “an opening statement by the prosecutor containing facts which would at least constitute prima facie evidence of guilt does not justify the court in taking the case from the jury upon a motion of the accused.”

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