State v. Delfino’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Gustafson (1996), Cunningham v. State (1989)
78 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 Blockburger v. United States · Ohio v. Johnson · Waller v. Florida · State v. Thomas · State v. Jones
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ossession of a substance or substances in Schedule I or II, with the exception of marijuana, is a single and separate offense.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“{¶ 19} Possession of heroin and aggravated possession of drugs [fentanyl] are two separate offenses pursuant to R.C. 2925.11(C)(6) and (C)(1). Each possession offense required proof as to the specific drug involved and could not be supported by possession of a different controlled substance. * * * The possession of heroin or fentanyl will never support a conviction for possession of the other. The fact that the two controlled substances were found in the same baggie is of no consequence . (Emphasis added.) Id. at ¶ 35.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lee“No person shall knowingly obtain, posses^ or use a controlled substance”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Montgomery
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.