State v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 496 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 500 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Payne (2007), 153 Ohio St. 3d 497 - State v. Beasley (2018)
2 federal appellate · 496 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · State v. Jenks · Payton v. New York
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 500 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accepting these facts as true, the appellate court must then independently determine, without deference to the conclusion of the trial court, whether the facts satisfy the applicable legal standard.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“On remand, the trial judge will afford Roberts her right to allocate, and the trial court shall personally review and evaluate the evidence, weigh the aggravating circumstances against any relevant mitigating evidence, and determine anew the appropriateness of the death penalty as required by R.C. 2929.03. The trial court will then personally prepare an entirely new penalty opinion as required by R.C. 2929.08(F) and conduct whatever other proceedings are required by law and consistent with this opinion.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he question of whether consent to a search was voluntary or the product of duress or coercion, express or implied, is a question of fact to be determined from the totality of the circumstances.”
3 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.