150 Ohio App. 3d 676 - State v. Kovac’s Empirical Analysis

2002

Citation profile

cited by 31 later decisions

states following

September 2023

most recently cited

31 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably State v. Richcreek (2011), State v. Bruce (2023)

31 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 Strickland v. Washington · State v. Thompkins · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · State v. Bradley · State v. Dehass

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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“A court must presume that a broad range of choices, perhaps even disastrous ones, are made on the basis of a tactical decision and do not constitute ineffective assistance of counsel.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. State v. Rector, Unpublished Decision (12-21-2005) · State v. Prieto, 07 Ma 4 (12-21-2007)
“In our system of justice, it is the fact finder, not the so-called expert or lay witnesses, who bears the burden of assessing the credibility and veracity of witnesses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. State v. Kisseberth, Unpublished Decision (6-17-2005) · State v. Bajaj, Unpublished Decision (6-8-2005)
“If the witness is not testifying as an expert, his testimony in the form of opinions or inferences is limited to those opinions or inferences which are (1) rationally based on the perception of the witness and (2) helpful to a clear understanding of his testimony or the determination of a fact in issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
e.g. State v. Bolling, Unpublished Decision (5-21-2005)

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.