State v. Mapson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 184 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 188 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Calhoun (1999), 103 Ohio App. 3d 307 - State v. Lawson (1995)
2 federal appellate · 184 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. Ishmail · State v. Hester · 42 Ohio St. 2d 46 - State v. Milanovich · State v. Lester · Jones v. State
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 188 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * to apprise petitioner of the grounds for the judgment of the trial court and to enable the appellate courts to properly determine appeals in such a cause.”
27 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Where a timely motion for findings of fact and conclusions of law has been filed in accordance with Civ. R. 52, the time period for filing a notice of appeal does not commence to run until the trial court files its findings of fact and conclusions of law.” (Emphasis added.) Id. at syllabus.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a judgment granting or denying postconviction relief is a final, appealable order. If a trial court errs by failing to issue statutorily required findings of fact and conclusions of law, the petitioner may obtain relief by raising that issue in an appeal from the trial court's judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Timm · State v. Harding
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.