State v. Eaton’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 171 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 174 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Getsy (1998), State v. Hale (2008)
1 federal appellate · 171 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Namet v. United States · Hopt v. People · 131 Ohio St. 27 - State v. Huffman
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 174 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'It is today universally conceded that the fact of an accused's flight, escape from custody, resistance to arrest, concealment, assumption of a false name, and related conduct, are admissible as evidence of consciousness of guilt, and thus of guilt itself.'”
21 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]light from justice, and its analogous conduct, have always been indicative of a consciousness of guilt * * *[.]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * We do not believe that defendant has the right to limit the production of proper evidence on the part of the prosecution to any greater extent than the prosecution has the right to limit the production of proper evidence on the part of the defense. We are of the opinion that either party has the right to conduct its side of the case in the manner it deems best under the proper supervision of the - trial, court and the applicable statute and case law of Ohio. There is nothing in Section 2945.59, Revised Code, which requires the result contended by defendant.” Id. at 153-154 , 48 O.O.2d at 192 , 249 N.E.2d at 903 .”
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.