131 Ohio App. 3d 470 - State v. Scudder’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably Grinols v. State (2000), People v. Silva (2006)
42 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. Reynolds · State v. Cole · State v. Jackson · State v. Kapper · State v. Mapson
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Accordingly, although the General Assembly felt it appropriate to grant indigent postconviction petitioners access to appointed counsel, it was not required to do so, nor was - 15 - Franklin 15AP-397 it required to guarantee the effective assistance of counsel.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Waddy“The ineffectiveness or incompetence of counsel during proceedings under this section does not constitute grounds for relief in a proceeding under this section, in an appeal of any action under this section, or in an application to reopen a direct appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Waddy
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.