40 Ohio App. 3d 57 - State v. Rubenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 76 Ohio App. 3d 664 - State v. Draughn (1992), 90 Ohio App. 3d 58 - State v. Bailey (1992)
85 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Drope v. Missouri
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) doubts expressed by counsel as to the defendant's competence; (2) evidence of irrational behavior; (3) the defendant's demeanor at trial; and (4) prior medical opinion relating to competence to stand trial.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“A defendant is presumed to be competent to stand trial. If, after a hearing, the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that, because of the defendant's present mental condition, the defendant is incapable of understanding the nature and objective of the proceedings against the defendant or of assisting in the defendant's defense, the court shall find the defendant incompetent to stand trial and shall enter an order authorized by section 2945.38 of the Revised Code.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Appellant] was denied the effective assistance of counsel as guaranteed by the sixth and fourteenth amendments to the united states constitution and section sixteen, article one of the Ohio constitution.”
1 later decision 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.