State v. Seliskar’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2021 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), 79 Ohio App. 3d 667 - State v. Caldwell (1992)
22 federal appellate · 21 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. Poole · 109 Ohio St. 281 - State v. Champion · State v. Johnson
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nasmuch as self-defense is an affirmative defense requiring proof by a preponderance of the evidence, it is incumbent upon a defendant claiming self-defense to offer evidence tending to establish that defense, including, if necessary, his own testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Delaffuente
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.