State v. Mathis’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
1,525 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,533 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably State v. Kalish (2008), State v. Saxon (2006)
1,525 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 United States v. Booker · Apprendi v. New Jersey · Blakely v. Washington · State v. Foster · Westfield Insurance v. Galatis
Cited together with State v. Foster · State v. Kalish · Strickland v. Washington · Blakely v. Washington · State v. Leopard
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 1,533 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trial courts have full discretion to impose a prison sentence within the statutory range and are no longer required to make findings and give reasons for imposing maximum, consecutive or more than the minimum sentence.”
91 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“carefully consider the statutes that apply to every felony case [including] R.C. 2929.11 , which specifies the purposes of sentencing, and R.C. 2929.12 , which provides guidance in considering factors relating to the seriousness of the offense and recidivism of the offender [and] statutes that are specific to the case itself.”
81 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After the severance, judicial fact-finding is not required before a prison term may be imposed within the basic ranges of R.C. 2929.14 (A) based upon a jury verdict or admission of the defendant.”
18 later decisions 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.