State v. Nolton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Long (1978), State v. Sage (1987)
3 federal appellate · 88 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 109 Ohio St. 281 - State v. Champion · State v. Loudermill · 130 Ohio St. 443 - Malone 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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`complete defense to all substantive elements of the crime charged' (or, consequently, to any lesser included offense).”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * When the indictment or information charges an offense, including different degrees, or if other offenses are included within the offense charged, the jury may find the defendant not guilty of the degree charged but guilty of an inferior degree thereof or lesser included offense.””
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.