112 Ohio App. 3d 621 - State v. Wood’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably St. John v. Hickey (2005), State v. Baccala (2017)
3 federal appellate · 29 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. Halper · City of Cuyahoga Falls v. Bowers · State v. Best · State v. Hoffman · State v. Waddell
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) Making unreasonable noise or an offensively coarse utterance, gesture, or display or communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person may not be punished under R.C. 2917.11 (A)(2) for `recklessly caus(ing) inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm to another,' by making an `offensively course utterance' or `communicating unwarranted and grossly abusive language to any person,' unless the words spoken are likely, by their very utterance, to inflict injury or provoke the average person to an immediate retaliatory breach of the peace.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“either verbally or via an extended digit, may indeed constitute 'fighting words' depending on the circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hale
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.