State v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 97 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Mills (1992), State v. Leonard (2004)
3 federal appellate · 97 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. Woods · State v. Brooks
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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The act of pointing a deadly weapon at another coupled with a threat, which indicates an intention to use such weapon, is sufficient evidence to convict a defendant of the offense of 'felonious assault' as defined by R.C. 2903.11(A)(2). (State v. Brooks, 44 Ohio St.3d 185 , 542 N.E.2d 636 [1989], syllabus, explained and followed.)”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) Cause or attempt to cause physical harm to another * * * by means of a deadly weapon or dangerous ordnance.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] person acts knowingly, regardless of his purpose, when he is aware that his conduct will probably cause a certain result or will probably be of a certain nature. A person has knowledge of circumstances when he is aware that such circumstances probably exist.”
3 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.