State v. Vaught’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2011
15 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. Walker · Atkins v. State
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person, while operating or participating in the operation of a motor vehicle, motorcycle, snowmobile, locomotive, watercraft, or aircraft, shall negligently cause the death of another * * *.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[I]f the record shows an absence of sufficient evidence of such causal link between appellant's driving speed and the victim's death i.e., that appellant reached the point where the accident occurred before the Mound Street light turned red the conviction must be overturned. . . . [T]he evidence with respect to the issue of whether any negligence on the part of defendant was the proximate cause of the victim's death is insufficient as a matter of law to sustain the conviction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is established law in Ohio that one cannot be convicted of a crime in the absence of evidence as to each element of that crime ‘which if believed, would convince the average mind of the defendant’s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.’ Atkins v. State (1926), 115 Ohio St. 542, 546 , cited inSiate v. Walker (1978), 55 Ohio St. 2d 208, 210 [ 9 O.O.3d 152 ].” (Emphasis sic.) Id. at 94.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.