State v. Steffen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 674 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 712 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Lott (1990), State v. Mills (1992)
22 federal appellate · 674 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 Caldwell v. Mississippi · Estelle v. Smith · McCleskey v. Kemp · Pulley v. Harris · State v. Maurer
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 712 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ven assuming lawful initial entry, the jury was justified in inferring from the evidence that appellant's privilege to remain in Karen's parents' home terminated the moment he commenced his assault on her.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“R.C. 2929.04(B) requires the jury, trial court, or three-judge panel to 'consider, and weigh against the aggravating circumstances proved beyond a reasonable doubt, the nature and circumstances of the offense ***.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Smith · State v. Loza““The proportionality review required by R.C. 2929.05(A) is satisfied by a review of those cases already decided by the reviewing court in which the death penalty has been imposed.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.