36 Ohio App. 3d 76 - State v. Ellington’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State ex rel. White v. Junkin (1997), State v. Smith (1989)
58 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 32 Ohio App. 2d 102 - Dallman v. Court of Common Pleas · 14 Ohio App. 2d 59 - State v. Poffenbaugh · 26 Ohio App. 2d 87 - State v. Orris · 9 Ohio App. 3d 47 - State v. Delaney
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To journalize a decision means that certain formal requirements have been met, i.e., the decision is reduced to writing, it is signed by a judge, and it is filed with the clerk so that it may become a part of the permanent record of the court.”
3 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.