136 Ohio App. 3d 631 - State v. Scruggs’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Brown (2018), Daugherty v. Cross, Unpublished Decision (10-13-2006) (2006)
60 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 99 Ohio App. 3d 653 - State v. Bilder
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any mental illness or condition that involves some temporary substantial incapacity or mental illness or condition that would normally require psychiatric treatment.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“two or more actions or incidents closely related in time, whether or not there has been a prior conviction based on any of those actions or incidents.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o person by engaging in a pattern of conduct shall knowingly cause another to believe that the offender will cause physical harm to the other person or cause mental distress to the other person.”
4 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.