State v. Wolons’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 586 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 593 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), 82 Ohio St. 3d 123 - State v. Goff (1998)
3 federal appellate · 586 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. Adams · United States v. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. · Presley v. City of Norwood · State v. Fox · State v. Hipkins
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 593 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `abuse of discretion' connotes more than an error of law or judgment; it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, arbitrary, or unconscionable.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“the facts and circumstances of the case.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“in a criminal case, where the record affirmatively shows that a trial court has been fully apprised of the correct law governing a material issue in dispute, and the requesting party has been unsuccessful in obtaining the inclusion of that law in the trial court's charge to the jury, such party does not waive his objections to the court's charge by failing to formally object thereto.”
7 later decisions 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.