State v. Eley’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1,054 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,060 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Jenks (1991), State v. Lott (1990)
1,054 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. Williams · State v. Walker · Atkins v. State · State v. Sorgee
Cited together with State v. Thompkins · State v. Dehass · State v. Jenks · 20 Ohio App. 3d 172 - State v. Martin · Jackson v. Virginia
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 1,060 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court's examination of the record at trial is limited to a determination of whether there was evidence presented, 'which, if believed, would convince the average mind of the defendant's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.'”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“"No person, in attempting or committing a theft offense, as defined in section 2913.01 of the Revised Code, or in fleeing immediately after the attempt or offense, shall *** [i]nflict, or attempt to inflict, serious physical harm on another."”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"(a) Any mental illness or condition of such gravity as would normally require hospitalization or prolonged psychiatric treatment; (b) Any physical harm that carries a substantial risk of death; (c) Any physical harm that involves some permanent incapacity, whether partial or total, or that involves some temporary, substantial incapacity; (d) Any physical harm that involves some permanent disfigurement or that involves some temporary, serious disfigurement; (e) Any physical harm that involves *Page 7 acute pain of such duration as to result in substantial suffering or that involves any degree of prolonged or intractable pain."”
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.