State v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
125 federal appellate · 2,791 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,043 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), State v. Calhoun (1999)
125 federal appellate · 2,791 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 Jones v. State · Freeman v. Maxwell · McMullen v. Maxwell · 10 Ohio St. 2d 183 - State v. Catlino
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Cole · State v. Calhoun · State v. Reynolds · State v. Szefcyk
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 3,043 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the doctrine of res judicata, a final judgment of conviction bars the convicted defendant from raising and litigating in any proceeding, except an appeal from that judgment, any defense or any claimed lack of due process that was raised or could have been raised by the defendant at the trial which resulted in that judgment of conviction or on an appeal from that judgment.”
240 later decisions quote this exact passage“'only if the court can find that there was such a denial or infringement of the rights of the prisoner as to render the judgment void or voidable under the Ohio Constitution or the United States Constitution.'”
19 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Howard · State v. Edwards“Any person convicted of a criminal offense or adjudged delinquent claiming that there was such a denial or infringement of his rights as to render the judgment void or voidable under the Ohio Constitution or the Constitution of the United States, may file a petition at any time in the court which imposed sentence, stating the grounds for relief relied upon, and asking the court to vacate or set aside the judgment or sentence or to grant other appropriate relief. The petitioner may file such supporting affidavit and other documentary evidence as will support his claim for relief.”
17 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.