85 Ohio App. 3d 840 - State v. Lafreniere’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2021
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Williams · State v. Jamison · State v. Broom · State v. Rahman · State v. Jells
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.
“doctrine, modern courts have cited R.C. 2901.21 . Subsection (A) of this statute states that a defendant cannot be found guilty of an offense unless it is shown, inter alia, that his liability is predicated upon conduct which constitutes a voluntary act, and that he had the requisite mental state in committing the act. Subsection (C) (2) then provides that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even though a weapon was originally drawn in self-defense, it *Page 32 does not necessarily mean that it was ultimately used in such a manner. * * * Additional instruction[s] as to the nature of the events leading up to [the shooting] would seem to be merely permissible rather than mandatory.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]eflexes, convulsions, body movements during unconsciousness or sleep, and body movements that are not otherwise a product of the actor's volition, are involuntary acts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.