State v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

36 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a court strikes down a statute as unconstitutional, and the offending statute replaced an existing law that had been repealed in the same bill that enacted the offending statute, the repeal is also invalid unless it clearly appears that the General Assembly meant the repeal to have effect even if the offending statute had never been passed.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Bexley v. State · State ex rel. Grant v. Collins (Slip Opinion)

2. “{¶ 39} “[A] person charged by a State with a criminal offense who is committed solely on account of his incapacity to proceed to trial cannot be held more than the reasonable period of time necessary to determine whether there is a substantial probability that he will attain that capacity in the foreseeable future.” Jackson, 406 U.S. at 738 , 92 S.Ct. 1845 , 32 L.Ed.2d 435 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 153 Ohio App. 3d 271 - City of Youngstown v. Ortiz

3. “[i]f any item of law *** contained in this act *** is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other items of law or applications of items of law that can be given effect without the invalid item of law or application. To this end *** sections of law contained in this act are composed, and their applications, are independent and severable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. City of Bexley v. State