146 Ohio App. 3d 402 - Pengov v. White’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2026
10 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 Bordenkircher v. Hayes · United States v. Armstrong · Mills v. Green · Joyce v. General Motors Corp. · Fortner v. Thomas
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“either to prosecute or to revisit his determination. Of course, the prosecutor may, in the exercise of his discretion, revisit his determination at any time until the statute of limitations expires and reverse or modify his decision. However, he has no duty to do so either during his term *Page 6 in office in which the potentially criminal conduct occurred, or in any subsequent term in office. This is because”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A prosecuting attorney will not be compelled to prosecute a complaint except when the failure to prosecute constitutes an abuse of discretion. Therefore, the decision whether to prosecute is discretionary, and not generally subject to judicial review.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The duty of the prosecuting attorney is to exercise his discretion in determining, on a case-by-case basis, whether to prosecute particular individuals for alleged criminal offenses.”
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.