State v. Blankenship’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 388 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 395 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Williams (2012), State v. Brown (2008)
2 federal appellate · 388 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. Logan · State v. Mughni · State v. Mitchell · State v. Donald · State v. Talley
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 395 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“correspond to such a degree that the commission of one crime will result in the commission of the other.”
68 later decisions quote this exact passage“a felonious assault may occur absent the existence of a kidnapping. A person may seriously injure another without restraining the victim of his or her liberty.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a possible to commit one without committing the other. Blankenship, 38 Ohio St.3d at 119, 526 N.E.2d 816 (Whiteside, J., concurring) ("It is not necessary that both crimes are always committed by the same conduct but, rather, it is sufficient if both offenses can be committed by the same conduct. It is a matter of possibility, rather than certainty, that the same conduct will constitute commission of both offenses.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Helms · State v. Devore
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.