State v. Underwood’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 683 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 701 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), State v. Smith (1997)
9 federal appellate · 683 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. Long · State v. Williams · State v. Muscatello · State v. Nolton · State v. Humphries
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 701 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“but for the error, the outcome of the trial court clearly would have been otherwise.”
51 later decisions quote this exact passage“should be applied with utmost caution and should be invoked only to prevent a clear miscarriage of justice. Id. at 14 . {¶ 31} In the case sub judice, defense counsel failed to object to the jury instruction on stealth. Accordingly, appellant has waived any possible error unless we determine plain error existed which would have resulted in appellant's acquittal. {¶ 32} Even assuming, without ruling, that the stealth jury instruction was in error, there was sufficient evidence to find appellant guilty of breaking and entering by use of”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Absent plain error, the failure to object to improprieties in jury instructions, as required by Crim.R. 30, is a waiver of the issue on appeal.”
3 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.