16 Ohio App. 3d 232 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2018
16 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. Bridgeman · Glass v. Isaac · 114 Ohio App. 429 - Riss & Co. v. Bowers
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`The least removing of items with an intent to deprive the owner of it is a sufficient asportation, though the property is not removed from the premises of the owner nor retained in the possession of the thief. * * *' [This] comports with common sense, for to wait until the suspect leaves the store with the stolen merchandise may indeed jeopardize the successful apprehension of the suspect." State v. Williams (1984), 16 Ohio App.3d 232 , 234 , quoting State v. Brown (Aug. 2, 1983), 2d Dist. No. 8197, at .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Exert control: The least removing [of the] property taken with the purpose of depriving the owner of that property is sufficient exertion of control over property. The thief must obtain entire and absolute possession of the property only for an instant. The goods need not be removed from the premises of the owner. The goods need not be retained in the possession of the thief.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to wait until the suspect leaves the store with the stolen merchandise may indeed jeopardize the successful apprehension of the suspect”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Csillag
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.