20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
10,891 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10,905 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Thompkins (1997), Eastley v. Volkman (2012)
10,891 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 Jackson v. Virginia · Tibbs v. Florida · State v. Lytle · State v. Jackson · State v. Hester
Cited together with State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · Strickland v. Washington · State v. Dehass · Jackson v. Virginia
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 10,905 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“should be exercised only in the exceptional case in which the evidence weighs heavily against the conviction.”
2,137 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court's function when reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction is to examine the evidence admitted at trial to determine whether such evidence, if believed, would convince the average mind of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The relevant inquiry is whether, after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
129 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ecause the factfinder . . . has the opportunity to see and hear the witnesses, the cautious exercise of the discretionary power of a court of appeals to find that a judgment is against the manifest weight of the evidence requires that substantial deference be extended to the factfinder's determinations of credibility. The decision whether, and to what extent, to credit the testimony of particular witnesses is within the peculiar competence of the factfinder, who has seen and heard the witness.”
57 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.