13 Ohio App. 3d 376 - State v. Griffin’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Nicely (1988), 112 Ohio App. 3d 521 - State v. Hopfer (1996)
2 federal appellate · 59 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. Nabozny · State v. Graven
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]roof of guilt may be made by circumstantial evidence as well as by real evidence and direct or testimonial evidence, or any combination of these three classes of evidence. All three classes have equal probative value, and circumstantial evidence has no less value than the others.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The only notable exception to this principle is where the inference between the facts proven and the facts sought to be proven is so attenuated that no reasonable mind could find proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proof of facts by direct evidence from which the trier of fact may infer or derive by reasoning other facts in accordance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Miller · State v. Koss
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.