State v. Poole’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 79 Ohio App. 3d 667 - State v. Caldwell (1992), State v. Hankerson (1975)
21 federal appellate · 174 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. Childs · State v. Nolton · 18 Ohio St. 2d 13 - State v. Staten · 109 Ohio St. 77 - Long v. State · 116 Ohio St. 495 - State v. Vargo
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the state has shown that the death was the result of design, purpose, or intent, ... then the notion of accident is necessarily excluded.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“`denial or contradiction of evidence which the prosecution has offered as proof of an essential element of the crime charged.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'must be proved by a preponderance of the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Diggs
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.