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58 Ohio App. 3d 45 - State v. Clemmons’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

51
cited by 51 later decisions
1
states following
March 2026
most recently cited

51 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Calhoun (1999), 126 Ohio App. 3d 71 - State v. Wiles (1998)

51 state decisions

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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. Perry · State v. Hester · State v. Lester · Alpha Distributing Co. of California, Inc. v. Jack Daniel Distillery · 41 Ohio App. 2d 181 - State v. Brown

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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “'explicit enough to give the appellate court a clear understanding of the basis of the trial court's decision, and to enable it to determine the ground on which the trial court reached its decision.'”
    11 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Martin, Unpublished Decision (2-17-2004) · State v. Yates, 91580 (2-12-2009)
  2. “[i]f the court dismisses the petition, it shall make and file findings of fact and conclusions of law with respect to such dismissal.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Gibson, Unpublished Decision (8-11-2006) · State v. Jordan, Unpublished Decision (12-16-2004)
  3. “arguing that the finding is solely based upon the trial court's personal opinion, and not the record, and is therefore prejudicial error. {¶ 23} R.C. 2953.21(D) explicitly requires a trial court to make findings of fact and conclusions of law when dismissing a PCR petition without a hearing.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. State v. Clayton

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.