State v. Bridgeman’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1,268 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,272 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2026 · most notably Engle v. Isaac (1982), State v. Dennis (1997)
1,268 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 Lockett v. Ohio · Bell v. Ohio · State v. Swiger · United States v. Collon
Cited together with State v. Jenks · State v. Thompkins · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Dehass
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 1,272 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Pursuant to Crim.R. 29(A), a court shall not order an entry of judgment of acquittal if the evidence is such that reasonable minds can reach different conclusions as to whether each material element of a crime has been proved beyond a reasonable doubt.”
246 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court on motion of a defendant or on its own motion, after the evidence on either side is closed, shall order the entry of a judgment of acquittal of one or more offenses charged in the indictment, information, or complaint, if the evidence is insufficient to sustain a conviction of such offense or offenses. The court may not reserve ruling on a motion for judgment of acquittal made at the close of the state's case.”
111 later decisions quote this exact passage““The verdict is against the manifest weight of the evidence.””
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.