159 Ohio App. 3d 852 - State v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 173 Ohio App. 3d 642 - State v. Rowbotham (2007), State v. Willard (2021)
28 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. Nero · State v. Ballard · State v. Stewart · State v. Johnson · Stacy v. Van Coren
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial compliance means that under the totality of the circumstances the defendant subjectively understands the implications of his plea and the rights he is waiving.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * (B) No person shall operate a motor vehicle so as willfully to elude or flee a police officer after receiving a visible or audible signal from a police officer to bring the person's motor vehicle to a stop. {¶ 15} "(C)(1) Whoever violates this section is guilty of failure to comply with an order or signal of a police officer. {¶ 16} "* * * {¶ 17} "(5)(a) A violation of division (B) of this section is a felony of the third degree if the jury or judge as trier of fact finds any of the following by proof beyond a reasonable doubt: {¶ 18} "(i) The operation of the motor vehicle by the offender was a proximate cause of serious physical harm to persons or property. {¶ 19} "(ii) The operation of the motor vehicle by the offender caused a substantial risk of serious physical harm to persons or property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellant then led police on a high speed chase through three counties and lasting approximately three hours. The chase ended after appellant's vehicle crashed and he was taken into custody.”
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.