125 Ohio App. 3d 456 - State v. Swiger’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Pratts v. Hurley (2004), Combs v. Coyle (2000)
6 federal appellate · 92 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. Bradley · Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez · State v. Perry · GTE Automatic Electric, Inc. v. ARC Industries, Inc. · State v. Szefcyk
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subject matter jurisdiction focuses on the court as a forum and on the case as one of a class of cases, not on the particular facts of a case or the particular tribunal that hears the case.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here it is apparent from the allegations that the matter alleged is within the class of cases in which a particular court has been empowered to act, jurisdiction is present. Any subsequent error in the proceedings is only error in the `exercise of jurisdiction,' as distinguished from the want of jurisdiction in the first instance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the invalidity of a jury trial waiver was `not a jurisdictional defect'”
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.