10 Ohio App. 3d 56 - State v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
152 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Johnson (2001), State v. Cooey (1989)
152 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. Wolery · Morei v. United States · Peats v. State · 32 Ohio App. 2d 284 - State v. Clifton · 41 Ohio App. 64 - Smith 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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) No person, acting with the kind of culpability required for the commission of an offense, shall do any of the following: * * * aid or abet another in committing the offense.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mere approval or acquiescence, without expressed concurrence or the doing of something to contribute to an unlawful act, is not an aiding or abetting of the act.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * the terms ‘aid’ and ‘abet’ are familiar and simple legal terms. To aid is to assist. To abet is to incite or encourage.””
5 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.