State v. Eskridge’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
731 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 747 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 85 Ohio App. 3d 623 - State v. Claytor (1993), 65 Ohio St. 3d 51 - State v. Schaim (1992)
731 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. Eley · State v. Etheridge · 27 Ohio App. 3d 149 - State v. Fowler · 77 Ohio App. 553 - State v. Martin · 106 Ohio App. 322 - State v. Wolfenberger
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 747 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]orce need not be overt and physically brutal, but can be subtle and psychological.”
39 later decisions quote this exact passage“any violence, compulsion, or constraint physically exerted by any means upon or against a person or thing.”
34 later decisions quote this exact passage“A reviewing court will not reverse a conviction where there is substantial evidence upon which the court could reasonably conclude that all the elements of an offense have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
32 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.