121 Ohio App. 3d 539 - State v. Girts’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Girts v. Yanai (2007), 218 W. Va. 81 - Louk v. Cormier (2005)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 · United States v. Olano · Boykin v. Alabama · Barker v. Wingo · State v. Jenks
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Again these are his words. And the words that you heard from these folks supplied by him are unrefuted, and they are uncontroverted. There has been no evidence offered to say that these people are incorrect. None at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Girts v. Yanai“Ladies and gentlemen, we don’t have to tell you how it was introduced into her system. We know that it was ingested. And there is only one person that can tell you how it was introduced, and that’s the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Girts v. Yanai“is not the same as establishing the state's motive to cause a mistrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Thomas
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.