126 Ohio App. 3d 398 - State v. McWilliams’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably State v. Essa (2011), State v. Eaton, Unpublished Decision (6-27-2005) (2005)
27 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 Carchman v. Nash New Jersey Department of Corrections · Reed v. Farley · 45 Ohio App. 2d 43 - State v. Dawn · State ex rel. Moss v. Subora · 68 Ohio App. 3d 245 - State Ex Rel. Croake v. Trumbull County Sheriff
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the trial court had credited any more of the time McWilliams [served on his unrelated offense] against his sentence, McWilliams would have received double credit for two separate offenses. The law does not compel, nor could it countenance, such an absurd result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“arising out of the offense for which the prisoner was convicted and sentenced”
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.