State v. Burnside’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
3,415 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3,419 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Williams (2012), Johnson v. Abdullah (Slip Opinion) (2021)
3,415 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. Fanning · State v. Mills · 124 Ohio App. 3d 706 - State v. McNamara · State v. Homan · State v. French
Cited together with Terry v. Ohio · State v. Fanning · 124 Ohio App. 3d 706 - State v. McNamara · State v. Mills · Katz v. United States
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 3,419 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellate review of a motion to suppress presents a mixed question of law and fact.”
287 later decisions quote this exact passage“excusing only errors that are clearly de minimis.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a]fter a defendant files a motion to suppress the admission of alcohol test results, 'the state has the burden to show that the test was administered in substantial compliance with the regulations prescribed by the Director of Health.'”
11 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.