124 Ohio St. 1 - State v. Thayer’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (1984), State v. Jamison (1990)
5 federal appellate · 89 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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.
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is competent for [the prosecuting attorney] to argue the defendant's guilt from the evidence, to show that the evidence produces conviction on him and should convince them”
1 later decision 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.