State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

306 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 309 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[t]he threshold question in a double jeopardy analysis, therefore, is whether the government's conduct involves criminal punishment.”

   17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. In Re M.E., 2008ca00161 (4-13-2009) · State v. Linville, 08ca3051 (1-20-2009)

2. “In order to survive a void-for-vagueness challenge, the statute at issue must be written so that a person of common intelligence is able to determine what conduct is prohibited, and the statute must provide sufficient standards to prevent arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”

   7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Cole, Unpublished Decision (5-9-2005) · State v. Worst, Unpublished Decision (12-12-2005)

3. ““ ‘Sexual predator’ means a person who has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to committing a sexually oriented offense and is likely to engage in the future in one or more sexually oriented offenses.” R.C. 2950.09(B)(2) sets forth the relevant factors the judge must consider in determining whether an offender is a sexual predator: “(a) The offender’s age; “(b) The offender’s prior criminal record regarding all offenses, including, but not limited to, all sexual offenses; “(c) The age of the victim of the sexually oriented offense for which sentence is to be imposed; “(d) Whether the sexually oriented offense for which sentence is to be imposed involved multiple victims; “(e) Whether the offender used drugs or alcohol to impair the victim of the sexually oriented offense or to prevent the victim from resisting; “(f) If the offender previously has been convicted of or pleaded guilty to any criminal offense, whether the offender completed any sentence imposed for the prior offense and, if the prior offense was a sex offense or a sexually oriented offense, whether the offender participated in available programs for sexual offenders; “(g) Any mental illness or mental disability of the offender; “(h) The nature of the offender’s sexual conduct, sexual contact, or interaction in a sexual context with the victim of the sexually oriented offense and whether the sexual conduct, sexual contact, or interaction in a sexual context was part of a demonstrated pattern of abuse; “(i) Whethe”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Jones · State v. Horn