State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1,162 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,162 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Eastley v. Volkman (2012), State v. Bodyke (2010)
1,162 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 State v. Thompkins · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · Tibbs v. Florida · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · California Department of Corrections v. Morales
Cited together with State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Tibbs v. Florida · Strickland v. Washington
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 1,162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While sufficiency of the evidence is a test of adequacy regarding whether the evidence is legally sufficient to support the verdict as a matter of law, the criminal manifest weight of the evidence standard addresses the evidence's effect of inducing belief.”
98 later decisions quote this exact passage“to view the witnesses and observe their demeanor, gestures, and voice inflections, and use these observations in weighing the credibility of the proffered testimony.”
92 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because sex-offender-classification proceedings under R.C. Chapter 2950 are civil in nature, a trial court's determination in a sex-offender-classification hearing must be reviewed under a civil manifest-weight-of-the-evidence standard and may not be disturbed when the judge's findings are supported by some competent, credible evidence.”
31 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.