146 Ohio App. 3d 445 - State v. Widder’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably 153 Ohio App. 3d 286 - State v. Dalton (2003), State v. Capone, Unpublished Decision (9-3-2004) (2004)
32 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · 135 Ohio App. 3d 250 - State v. Berry · 82 Ohio App. 3d 829 - State v. Lesinski
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n denying an application to seal records pursuant to R.C. 2953.52, '[a] trial court must make the necessary findings as required by R.C. 2953.52(B)(2) and weigh the interests of the parties to the expungement'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(d) Weigh the interests of the person in having the official records pertaining to the case sealed against the legitimate needs, if any, of the government to maintain those records.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“the court shall set a date for a hearing and shall notify the prosecutor in the case of the hearing on the application.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cruz · State v. H.M.G.
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.