131 Ohio App. 3d 229 - State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently December 2023
2 district · 17 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. Thompkins · State v. Dehass · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · United States v. Harriss · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“or it encourages arbitrary and erratic arrests and convictions. Id., quoting Papachristou v. Jacksonville (1972), 405 U.S. 156 , 162 , quoting United States v. Harriss (1954), 347 U.S. 612 , 617 ; State v. Tanner (1984), 15 Ohio St.3d 1 , 3 . Impossible standards of specificity are not required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Lewis at 236, quoting Jordan v. De George (1951), 341 U.S. 223 , 231-232 . The cardinal rule of statutory construction that requires that words and phrases in Ohio statutes be given their plain, ordinary meaning and be construed”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[t]he test is whether the language conveys sufficiently definite warning as to the proscribed conduct when measured by common understanding and practices.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.