State v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably 108 Ohio App. 3d 428 - State v. Robinson (1996), 132 Ohio App. 3d 808 - State v. Cantin (1999)
55 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. Kilby · State v. Wilson
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Ohio Supreme Court held the [S]tate meets its burden if it presents evidence 'that an occupied structure is a permanent dwelling house which is regularly inhabited, that the occupying family was in and out on the day in question, and that such house was burglarized when the family was temporarily absent[.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(4) At the time, any person is present or likely to be present in it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“If we were to agree with * * * the proposition that, once the state proves that a permanent or temporary habitation has been burglarized, it is presumed that a person is likely to be present, [the statute] as construed, would indeed violate the Due Process Clause in that it would unconstitutionally presume the existence of an element of the offense”
1 later decision 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.