State v. Ishmail’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1,153 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,172 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Phillips (1995), State v. Hunter (2011)
8 federal appellate · 1,153 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. Stewart · 88 Ohio App. 98 - Bennett v. Dayton Memorial Park & Cemetery Ass'n
Cited together with Strickland v. Washington · State v. Bradley · State v. Thompkins · Blakemore v. Blakemore · State v. Jenks
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 1,172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reviewing court cannot add matter to the record before it, which was not a part of the trial court's proceedings, and then decide the appeal on the basis of the new matter.”
61 later decisions quote this exact passage“A reviewing court cannot add matter to the record before it, which was not part of the trial court's proceedings, and then decide the appeal on the basis of the new matter.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“Since a reviewing court can only reverse the judgment of a trial court if it finds error in the proceedings of such court, it follows that a reviewing court should be limited to what transpired in the trial court as reflected by the record made of the proceedings.”
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.