State v. Saffell’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
163 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 127 Ohio App. 3d 219 - State v. Stamps (1998), 129 Ohio App. 3d 294 - State v. Hirsch (1998)
163 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. Mincy · State v. Lee · City of Aurora v. Patrick
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nvariably, resolution of such a question depends on the peculiar facts and circumstances of a particular case.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the period of any reasonable continuance granted other than upon the accused's own motion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'In addition, precedent requires that such a continuance be necessary under the circumstances of the case.'”
3 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.