118 Ohio App. 3d 724 - State v. Dunham’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2025
18 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 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Tibbs v. Florida · State v. Cooey · 83 Ohio App. 3d 398 - Smith v. John Deere Co. · 14 Ohio St. 437 - Horton v. Horner
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where, as here, two persons agree to fight each other not in conformity with statutes authorizing boxing matches, each may be held guilty of assault, and where, as here, the harm visited upon one of the fighters constitutes serious physical harm, the fact that the fight was begun by mutual consent is not a defense, in law, to a charge brought pursuant to [the felonious-assault statute].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. MacKrill“The photographs of [the victim's] appearance immediately after the brawl, introduced No. 13AP-321 6 as evidence in the trial, demonstrate conclusively the severity and the probable permanent effects of the trauma inflicted upon him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McCurdy“A person acts knowingly, regardless of purpose, when he is aware that his conduct will probably cause a certain result or will probably be of a certain nature.”
1 later decision 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.