State v. Sellards’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 478 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 491 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Treesh (2001), State v. Hunter (2011)
7 federal appellate · 478 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. Greer · 7 Ohio App. 3d 364 - State v. Gingell · State v. Wilson · 125 Ohio St. 257 - Harris v. State · 108 Ohio St. 287 - Tesca v. State
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 491 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ordinarily, precise times and dates are not essential elements of offenses. Thus, the failure to provide dates and times in an indictment will not alone provide a basis for dismissal of the charges. A certain degree of inexactitude of averments, where they relate to matters other than elements of the offense, is not per se impermissible or necessarily fatal to a prosecution.”
40 later decisions quote this exact passage“to provide the accused with specifications of evidence or to serve as a substitute for discovery.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent material detriment to the preparation of a defense, the omission of specific dates and times is without prejudice, and without constitutional consequence.”
6 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.