137 Ohio App. 3d 336 - State v. Mendoza’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Paskins (2022), State v. Blackburn, 06 Ca 37 (8-21-2007) (2007)
111 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 · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Lockett v. Ohio · Tibbs v. Florida
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Participation in criminal intent may be inferred from presence, companionship and conduct before and after the offense is committed.'”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) No person, acting with the kind of culpability required for the commission of an offense, shall do any of the following: {¶ 47} "* * * {¶ 48} "(2) Aid or abet another in committing the offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cotton · State v. Phillips“reject[ed] the theory that in order to be guilty as an aider or abettor, the complicitor must purposely intend to aid or abet the principal in committing the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cotton · State v. Cotton
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.