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← 42 OHIOST3D 174 - State v. Butler

State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

178
cited by 178 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

178 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Smith (2020), 64 Ohio App. 3d 456 - State v. May (1989)

178 state decisions

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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 Peter Harmony v. The United States · 144 Ohio St. 65 - State Ex Rel. Foster v. Evatt · 67 Ohio App. 2d 65 - City of Columbus v. Bee · State v. Carter · People ex rel. Griffin v. Hunt

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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]o constitute possession, it is sufficient that the defendant has constructive possession”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Meddock · State v. Colley
  2. ““An offender shall not be placed on probation, and shall not otherwise have his sentence of imprisonment suspended pursuant to * * * section * * .51 8 * * * when * * *: u * * * “(3) The offense involved was * * * committed while the offender was armed with a firearm or dangerous ordnance * * *; U * * * “(5) The offender * * * is sentenced to a term of actual incarceration.””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 65 Ohio App. 3d 330 - State v. Reid
  3. “A person convicted or unlawful possession of a dangerous ordinance under R.C. 2923.17(A) is ineligible for probation pursuant to R.C. 2951.02(F) (3).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Forshey

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.