State v. Eastham’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Maxwell (2014), 64 Ohio St. 3d 401 - State v. Dever (1992)
149 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 14 Ohio App. 3d 385 - State v. Workman · 81 Ohio App. 375 - Hill v. Skinner · 9 Ohio App. 3d 282 - State v. Lee
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[I]t is the fact-finder, not the so-called expert or lay witness, who bears the burden of assessing the credibility and veracity of witnesses.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“acted as a litmus test of the key issue in the case and infringed upon the role of the fact finder, who is charged with making determinations of veracity and credibility.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(4) Statements for Purposes of Medical Diagnosis or Treatment. Statements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain, or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external source thereof insofar as reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.