State v. Grubb’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 559 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 564 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Engle (1996), State v. Hancock (2006)
3 federal appellate · 559 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. Maurer · State v. Davidson · 28 Ohio St. 3d 190 - State v. Gilmore · 6 Ohio App. 3d 1 - State v. White · 14 Ohio App. 3d 343 - State v. Leslie
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 564 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At trial it is incumbent upon a defendant, who has been temporarily restricted from introducing evidence by virtue of a motion in limine, to seek the introduction of the evidence by proffer or otherwise in order to enable the court to make a final determination as to its admissibility and to preserve any objection on the record for purposes of appeal.”
23 later decisions quote this exact passage“is a tentative, interlocutory, precautionary ruling by the trial court reflecting its anticipatory treatment of [an] evidentiary issue.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“`An appellate court need not review the propriety of such an order unless the claimed error is preserved by an objection, proffer, or ruling on the record when the issue is actually reached and the context is developed at trial.'”
17 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.