57 Ohio App. 2d 173 - State v. Emmons’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2025
20 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 Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Cady v. Dombrowski · Preston v. United States · 44 Wis. 2d 177 - State v. Davidson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law [Certificate of Title Act] was enacted to protect the rightful owners of motor vehicles against the fraudulent claims of others, not to protect thieves from the rightful owners.” State v. Emmons (1978), 57 Ohio App. 2d 173, 177 [ 11 O.O.3d 173 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence of a wrongful taking from the possession of another * * *. Particular ownership is not vital as to the thief.”
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.