State v. Staten’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably State v. Humphries (1977), State v. Johnson (1979)
3 federal appellate · 34 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 148 Ohio St. 702 - State Ex Rel. Witten v. Ferguson
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A de facto officer is one who enters upon and performs the duties of his office with the acquiescence of the people and the public authorities and has the reputation of being the officer he assumes to be and is dealt with as such.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he right of a de facto officer to hold office may not be questioned in a collateral proceeding to which he is not a party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““One accused of criminal conduct is not responsible for such criminal conduct if, at the time of such conduct, as •a result of mental illness or defect, he does not have the capacity either to know the wrongfulness of his conduct or .to conform his conduct to the requirements of law.””
1 later decision 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.