133 Ohio App. 3d 521 - State v. Brooks’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Arnott v. Arnott (2010), Orbe v. Johnson, Director Va Dept. of Corrections (Order) (2004)
25 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 Burger Brewing Co. v. Liquor Control Commission · 134 Ohio St. 511 - Schaefer v. First National Bank · Herrick v. Kosydar · 39 Ohio App. 3d 183 - Arbor Health Care Co. v. Jackson · 112 Ohio App. 3d 717 - Weyandt v. Davis
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] declaratory judgment action is not part of the criminal appellate process, and it cannot be used as a substitute for an appeal or as a collateral attack upon a conviction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A declaratory judgment action is a civil action and provides a remedy in addition to other legal and equitable remedies available.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Neither [R.C. 2701.02 ] nor Civ.R. 57 convert[s] a claimed error at law by a trial judge acting as a judge in a criminal case into a justiciable controversy between the defendant and the judge subject to resolution by declaration * * *.”
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.