State v. Hannah’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 98 Ohio St. 3d 44 - State v. Noling (2002), State v. Williams (1988)
78 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 Pointer v. Texas · State v. Dehass · 109 Ohio St. 281 - State v. Champion
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny abrogation of the defendant's right to a full and complete cross-examination of such witnesses is a denial of a fundamental right essential to a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Ladies and gentlemen, there is evidence from the defense and from the defendant’s own brother that the defendant was at home at around 4:15. Who else was there? Three small children and the brother’s wife, the sister-in-law. Do you have any testimony from her?’ ””
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.