State v. Fanning’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2,526 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 2,531 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Burnside (2003), State v. Mills (1992)
2 federal appellate · 2,526 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. Dehass · Linkletter v. Walker · Carter v. Kentucky · State v. Nelson · State v. Jackson
Cited together with Ornelas v. United States · Terry v. Ohio · State v. Burnside · 86 Ohio App. 3d 37 - State v. Williams · 95 Ohio App. 3d 93 - State v. Curry
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 2,531 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the weight of the evidence and credibility of witnesses are primarily for the trier of the facts. * * * This principle is applicable to suppression hearings as well as trials.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]t the close of the evidence or at such earlier time during the trial as the court reasonably directs, any party may -6- Butler CA2015-06-112 file written requests that the court instruct the jury on the law as set forth in the requests.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is noteworthy that the statute does not include any reference whatever to retrials. The standard to be applied, therefore, is basically reasonableness under federal and state constitutions.”
2 later decisions 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.