State v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
200 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 200 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Brooks (1996), State v. Colon (2008)
200 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. Headley · 125 Ohio St. 257 - Harris v. State
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 200 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whether an amendment changes the name or identity of the crime charged is a matter of law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Except in cases * * * involving offenses for which the penalty is less than imprisonment in the penitentiary, no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a grand jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.