108 Ohio App. 3d 248 - State v. Gest’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably 121 Ohio App. 3d 451 - State v. Nievas (1997), 139 Ohio App. 3d 398 - State v. Smith (2000)
70 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 Berger v. United States · State v. Maurer · State v. Landrum · State v. Apanovitch · State v. Keenan
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“touchstone of analysis * * * is the fairness of the trial, not the culpability of the prosecutor. * * * The Constitution does not guarantee an `error free, perfect trial.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“conduct of a prosecuting attorney during trial cannot be grounds for error unless the conduct deprives the defendant of a fair trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) No person, in attempting or committing a theft offense or in fleeing immediately after the attempt or offense, shall do any of the following: * * * {¶ 24} "(2) Inflict, attempt to inflict, or threaten to inflict physical harm on another; (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of robbery. A violation of division (A)(1) or (2) of this section is a felony of the second degree.”
1 later decision 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.