33 Ohio App. 3d 339 - State v. Otten’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1,746 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,746 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 85 Ohio App. 3d 623 - State v. Claytor (1993), 152 Ohio App. 3d 311 - State v. Samatar (2003)
1,746 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 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · 14 Ohio App. 3d 142 - State v. Hohman · 5 Ohio App. 3d 109 - City of Miamisburg v. Smith
Cited together with State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · State v. Dehass · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Strickland v. Washington
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 1,746 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court must review the entire record, weigh the evidence and all reasonable inferences, consider the credibility of witnesses and determine whether, in resolving conflicts in the evidence, the trier of fact clearly lost its way and created such a manifest miscarriage of justice that the conviction must be reversed and a new trial ordered.”
536 later decisions quote this exact passage“discretionary power to grant a new trial should be exercised only in the exceptional case in which the evidence weighs heavily against the conviction.”
108 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Defendant's] conviction was against the manifest weight of the evidence.”
51 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.