State v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 120 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), State v. Lott (1990)
9 federal appellate · 109 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 Spencer v. State of Texas a Bell · Chandler v. Warden Fretag · Giaccio v. State of Pennsylvania · Maxwell v. Dow · State v. Childs
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 120 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The state must be put to its proof regarding the identity of the accused in the prior offense and must demonstrate the fact of such prior offense beyond a reasonable doubt. The jury must then find that fact to be established and also convict the defendant of the second violation in order for the court to impose the greater punishment.” (Emphasis added.) Id. at 48 , 57 O.O.2d at 182 , 276 N.E.2d at 245 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““As we have often stated, an appellate court will not consider any error which counsel for a party complaining of the trial court’s judgment could have called but did not call to the trial court’s attention at a time when such error could have been avoided or corrected by the trial court.” State v. Gordon, 28 Ohio St. 2d 48, 50 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“would relieve counsel from any duty or responsibility to the court and place the entire responsibility upon the trial court to give faultless instructions upon every possible feature of the case, thereby disregarding entirely the true relation of court and counsel which enjoins upon counsel the duty to exercise diligence and to aid the court rather than by silence mislead the court into commission of error.”
2 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.