56 Ohio App. 3d 75 - State v. Catlin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 79 Ohio App. 3d 667 - State v. Caldwell (1992), 102 Ohio App. 3d 28 - State v. Braxton (1995)
33 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. Clayton · State v. DeMarco · State v. Williford · State v. Robbins · State v. Jackson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case in which there is a conflict in the testimony and the defendant has a reasonable hope that the jury will believe his evidence and return a verdict of not guilty, it is a matter of trial strategy whether to seek to have the jury instructed concerning a lesser offense, or not to seek such an instruction and to hope for an acquittal. State v. Clayton (1980), 62 Ohio St.2d 45 , 16 O.O. 3d 35 , 402 N.E. 2d 1189.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is difficult to persuade a jury with inconsistent theories of defense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[n]o person, while under the influence of sudden passion or in a sudden fit of rage, either of which is brought on by serious provocation occasioned by the victim that is reasonably sufficient to incite the person into using deadly force, shall knowingly:”
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.