126 Ohio App. 3d 614 - State v. Scalf’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Rahab (Slip Opinion) (2017), 159 Ohio App. 3d 775 - State v. Morris (2005)
85 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · North Carolina v. Pearce · State v. Jenks · State v. Dehass
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“no matter how overwhelming the evidence of [defendant's] guilt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although mere presence in the vicinity of drugs does not prove dominion and control, readily accessible drugs in close proximity to an accused may constitute sufficient circumstantial evidence to support a finding of constructive possession.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[If] the court makes statements that 'give rise to the inference that [the] defendant may have been punished more severely because of his assertion of the right to trial by jury,' we must vacate the sentence * * * unless the record also contains an unequivocal statement that the defendant's decision to go to trial was not considered in imposing the sentence.”
2 later decisions 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.