137 Ohio App. 3d 206 - State v. Lovelace’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Dykas (2010), State v. Wilson (2009)
78 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 · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · State v. Sage · State v. Williams · 2 Cal. 4th 271 - People v. Roberts
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`proximate result' bears a resemblance to the concept of `proximate cause' in that [a] defendant will be held responsible for those foreseeable consequences which are known to be, or should be known to be, within the scope of the risk created by his conduct.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hall · State v. Wells“'when the result varied from the [harm] intended or hazarded, it must be determined that the result achieved was not so extraordinary or surprising that it would be simply unfair to hold the defendant criminally responsible for something so unforeseeable.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he element of proximate cause is - 10 - Warren CA2016-02-009 satisfied where the defendant, 'sets in motion a sequence of events that make the death of another a direct proximate and reasonably inevitable consequence.'”
3 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.