State v. Cleary’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 127 Ohio App. 3d 328 - State v. Long (1998), 160 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Culver (2005)
105 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 State v. Tanner · City of Mentor v. Giordano · 3 Ohio App. 3d 265 - State v. Grimsley · City of Cincinnati v. Kelley · 14 Ohio App. 3d 419 - City of Toledo v. Voyles
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. Operation of a motor vehicle within the contemplation of R.C. 4511.19(A) is a broader term than driving and a person in the driver’s position in the front seat of the vehicle with the key in the ignition while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse can be found in violation of the statute. “2. Entering a motor vehicle, putting the key in the ignition and starting and engaging the engine in a stationary position are sufficient acts to constitute operation within the meaning of R.C. 4511.19(A)(1).””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * We find in the language chosen by the legislature a plainly indicated purpose to do so, because the overall design of the statute is to protect against the hazards to life, limb and property created by drivers who have consumed so much alcohol that their faculties are impaired. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““(A) No person shall operate any vehicle, streetcar, or trackless trolley within this state, if any of the following apply: * * “(3) The person has a concentration of ten-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of his breath * * *.””
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.