51 Ohio App. 3d 215 - State v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
187 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 187 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 90 Ohio App. 3d 284 - Universal Coach, Inc. v. New York City Transit Authority, Inc. (1993), 107 Ohio App. 3d 51 - State v. Messer (1995)
187 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. Bridgeman
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 187 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that reasonable minds can reach different conclusions as to whether each material element of a crime has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“An appellate court's function when reviewing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a criminal conviction is to examine the evidence admitted at trial to determine whether such evidence, if believed, would convince the average mind of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The relevant inquiry is whether, after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 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.