State v. Rahman’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
286 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 288 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. DeMarco (1987), 112 Ohio App. 3d 521 - State v. Hopfer (1996)
286 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 Chapman v. State of California · Kotteakos v. United States · Berger v. United States · Doyle v. Ohio · Dusky v. United States
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 288 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus, although a spouse may be competent to testify in a criminal trial, R.C. 2945.42 confers a substantive right upon the accused to exclude privileged spousal testimony concerning a confidential communication made or act done during coverture unless a third person was present or one of the other specifically enumerated exceptions contained in the statute is applicable.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * Husband or wife shall not testify concerning a communication made by one to the other, or act done by either in the presence of the other, during coverture, unless the communication was made or act done in the known presence or hearing of a third person competent to be a witness * * *.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Plain errors or defects affecting substantial rights may be noticed although they were not brought to the attention of the court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. White · State v. Oller
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.