State v. Porterfield’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 309 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 330 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Mathis (2006), State v. Underwood (2010)
2 federal appellate · 309 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 Westfield Insurance v. Galatis · State v. Comer · 143 Ohio App. 3d 562 - State v. Hollingsworth · 8 Ohio App. 3d 368 - Roy v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
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 330 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]nce a defendant stipulates that a particular sentence is justified, the sentencing judge no longer needs to independently justify the sentence.”
33 later decisions quote this exact passage“A sentence imposed upon a defendant is not subject to review under this section if the sentence is authorized by law, has been recommended jointly by the defendant and the prosecution in the case, and is imposed by a sentencing judge.”
22 later decisions quote this exact passage“Only when a definitive meaning proves elusive should rules for construing ambiguous language be employed. Otherwise, allegations of ambiguity become self-fulfilling.”
22 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.