State v. Sinito’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently February 2020 · most notably Woods v. Telb (2000), State v. Dorso (1983)
6 federal appellate · 109 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 Kastigar v. United States · Counselman v. Hitchcock · Brown v. Walker · Ullmann v. United States · McCarthy v. Arndstein
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“well-settled principle of statutory construction that where constitutional questions are raised, courts will liberally construe a statute to save it from constitutional infirmities.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Whenever the testimony or other evidence in possession of a person is necessary to a full and complete investigation of any criminal conduct, or to secure or successfully maintain and conclude a prosecution, and when in such case it appears in the interests of justice to do so, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas or Court of Appeals, or a justice of the Supreme Court may grant to such person immunity from any prosecution based on his testimony or other evidence given by him, other than a prosecution for perjury or tampering with evidence.’ ” (Emphasis added.) Id. at fn. 1.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(A) The object sought to be attained; “(B) The circumstances under which the statute was enacted; “(C) The legislative history; “(D) The common law or former statutory provisions, including laws upon the same or similar subjects; “(E) The consequences of a particular construction; “(F) The administrative construction of the statute.” See State v. Sinito (1975), 43 Ohio St. 2d 98, 101 [ 72 O.O.2d 54 ], at fn. 6.”
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.