145 Ohio App. 3d 824 - State v. Hilbert’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably State v. Boddie (2007), State v. A.S. (2022)
98 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 Huffman v. Hair Surgeon, Inc. · City of Pepper Pike v. Doe · State ex rel. Gains v. Rossi · Barker v. State · State v. Bissantz
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall order all official records pertaining to the case sealed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Determine whether the applicant is a first offender or whether the forfeiture of bail was agreed to by the applicant and the prosecutor in the case. * * * {¶ 17} "(b) Determine whether criminal proceedings are pending against the applicant; {¶ 18} "(c) If the applicant is a first offender * * *, determine whether the applicant has been rehabilitated to the satisfaction of the court; {¶ 19} "(d) If the prosecutor has filed an objection * * *, consider the reasons against granting the application specified by the prosecutor in the objection; *Page 6 {¶ 20} "(e) Weigh the interests of the applicant in having the records pertaining to the applicant's conviction sealed against the legitimate needs, if any, of the government to maintain those records.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[P]eople make mistakes [and] afterwards they regret their conduct and are older, wiser and sadder. The enactment and amendment of R.C. 2953.31 and 32 is, in a way, a manifestation of the traditional Western civilization concepts of sin, punishment, atonement, and forgiveness. Although rehabilitation is not favored in current penal thought, the unarguable fact is that some people do rehabilitate themselves.”
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.