State v. Butcher’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
298 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 298 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Donkers (2007), 127 Ohio App. 3d 219 - State v. Stamps (1998)
298 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. Ladd · State v. MacDonald · State v. Gray · State v. Cross
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 298 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only to those defendants held in jail in lieu of bail solely on the pending charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Feagin
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.