16 Ohio App. 3d 313 - State v. Flowers’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 101 Ohio App. 3d 389 - State v. Clark (1995), 83 Ohio App. 3d 474 - State v. Clelland (1992)
2 federal appellate · 55 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 131 Ohio St. 27 - State v. Huffman · State v. Kulig · Cox v. Ohio Department of Transportation · State v. Sorgee
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is a reasonable inference that one who forcibly enters a dwelling * * * does so with the intent to commit a theft offense in the absence of circumstances giving rise to a different inference.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Persons do not ordinarily forcibly enter a dwelling being occupied by others unless there is an intent to commit a crime, the most likely crime being a theft offense in the absence of circumstances giving rise to a reasonable inference of some other offense being the purpose of entry.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the intent of an accused person is only in his mind and is not ascertainable by another, it cannot be proved by direct testimony of another person but must be determined from the surrounding facts and circumstances.”
3 later decisions 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.