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← 28 OHIOST2D 89 - State v. Hardy

State v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis

1971

Citation profile

99
cited by 99 later decisions
2
states following
February 2026
most recently cited

95 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 127 Ohio App. 3d 511 - State v. Thompson (1998), Commonwealth v. Connolly (1985)

95 state decisions

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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 · Harrington v. California · State v. Sisneros · Marcoguiseppe v. State · State v. Porter

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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “If from the entire charge it appears that a correct statement of the law was given in such a manner that the jury could not have been misled, no prejudicial error results.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Stoutamire, 2007-T-0089 (6-13-2008) · State v. Spence, Unpublished Decision (11-30-2006)
  2. “[a] driver of a motor vehicle is considered `under the influence' of alcohol when his `physical and mental ability to act and react are altered from the normal because of the consumption of alcohol'.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Lloyd, Unpublished Decision (9-3-2004) · State v. Stephenson, Unpublished Decision (5-12-2006)
  3. “Under the influence of alcohol covers . . . any abnormal mental or physical condition which is the result of indulging in any degree in the consumption of alcohol and which tends to deprive the one so using it of the clearness of - 10 - Warren CA2024-12-087 intellect and control of himself which he would otherwise possess.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Sperry

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.