21 Ohio St. 3d 91 - State v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 218 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 247 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Martin v. Ohio (1987), State v. Williford (1990)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 218 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · State v. Dehass · Engle v. Isaac · Patterson v. New York
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 247 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he elements of the crime and the existence of self-defense are separate issues.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“an excuse or justification peculiarly within the knowledge of the accused, on which he can fairly be required to adduce supporting evidence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“long determined that self-defense is an affirmative defense,”
4 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.