57 Ohio App. 2d 229 - State v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 173 Ohio App. 3d 494 - State v. Wellman (2007), People v. Vasquez (2001)
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.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““No person, without privilege to do so and with purpose to prevent, obstruct, or delay the performance by a public official of any authorized act within his official capacity, shall do any act which hampers or impedes a public official in the performance of his lawful duties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Muldrow
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.