137 Ohio App. 3d 184 - State v. Norman’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Cabrales (2008), Hanson-Metayer v. Hanson-Metayer (2013)
36 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. Rance · State v. Jones · City of Newark v. Vazirani · 97 Ohio App. 3d 337 - State v. Fields · State v. Merriweather
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The linchpin of the Rance test is the observation that the General Assembly may prescribe cumulative punishments for specific offenses that would have constituted the same offenses under Blockburger v. United States (1932), 284 U.S. 299 , 52 S.Ct. 180 , 76 L.Ed. 306 . The court concluded that R.C. 2941.25 , the general codification of the test for allied offenses of similar import, `”
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.