Spears v. Deweese’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 2022
4 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 146 Ohio St. 467 - State Ex Rel. Jones v. Farrar · State ex rel. Ragozine v. Shaker · Davis v. Wilson · Leisure v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. · Potts v. Rose
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a general rule, a statute providing a time for the performance of an official duty will be construed as directory so far as time for performance is concerned, especially where the statute fixes the time simply for convenience or orderly procedure”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]oreover, any noncompliance by Judge DeWeese with R.C. 2701.06 did not invalidate Spears's criminal proceedings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.