State v. Rhodes’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Jackson (2006), State v. Shimits (1984)
54 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 59 Ohio App. 2d 91 - Grogan Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc. v. Gottfried · 57 Ohio App. 2d 173 - State v. Emmons
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(A) No person, with purpose to deprive the owner of property or services, shall knowingly obtain or exert control over either the property or services in any of the following ways: “(1) Without the consent of the owner or person authorized to give consent[.]” “Owner” is defined in R.C. 2913.01(D), which provides: “(D) ‘Owner’ means any person, other than the actor, who is the owner of, or who has possession or control of, or any license or interest in property or services, even though such ownership, possession, control, license, or interest is unlawful.” ■”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall recognize the right, title, claim, or interest of any person in or to any motor vehicle sold or disposed of, or mortgaged or encumbered”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“it is merely necessary to prove that a defendant deprived someone of property who had 'possession or control of, or any license or any interest in' that property. It is unnecessary, however, for one from whom possession or control is taken to have lawful possession or control[.]”
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.