Dunn v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably State ex rel. DeWine v. Burge (2011), Durain v. Sheldon (2009)
37 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. Baker · City of Cleveland v. Trzebuckowski · State ex rel. Grove v. Nadel · 16 Ohio App. 3d 399 - Kennedy v. City of Cleveland · Scanlon v. Brunsman
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the guilty plea, the jury verdict, or the finding of the court upon which the conviction is based; (2) the sentence; (3) the signature of the judge; and (4) entry on the journal by the clerk of court.”
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.