34 Ohio App. 3d 6 - State v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. McKelton (Slip Opinion) (2016), State v. Richcreek (2011)
37 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 Sheppard v. Maxwell · United States v. Virginia Erection Corp. · State v. Reed · United States v. Lamb · United States v. Beasley
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he credibility of a witness may be attacked by any party except that the credibility of a witness may be attacked by the party calling the witness by means of a prior inconsistent statement only upon a showing of surprise and affirmative damage.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Surprise is adequately demonstrated if the testimony is materially inconsistent with the prior statement, and counsel did not have reason to believe the witness would change his testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . occurs if the party's own witness testifies to facts that contradict, deny, or harm that party's trial position.”
2 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.