81 Ohio App. 375 - Hill v. Skinner’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 30 state decisions

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

1. ““The essential test of the competency of an infant witness is his comprehension of the obligation to tell the truth and his intellectual capacity of observation, recollection and communication. The nature of his conception of the obligation to tell the truth is of little importance if he shows that he will fulfill the obligation to speak truthfully as a duty which he owes a Diety or something held in reverence or regard, and if he has the intellectual capacity to communicate his observations and experiences.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 9 Ohio App. 3d 282 - State v. Lee

2. ““Every person is competent to be a witness except: “(A) Those of unsound mind, and children under ten (10) years of age, who appear incapable of receiving just impressions of the facts and transactions respecting which they are examined, or of relating them truly * * *.””

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

3. “answer to a question propounded after the intervention of circumstances which would make the reply one lacking the attributes of spontaneity,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. John J. Connors, Jr. v. William J. Schmidt