State v. Suchomski’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 110 Ohio App. 3d 250 - State v. Hart (1996), 88 Ohio App. 3d 515 - State v. Hicks (1993)
81 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(A) No person shall knowingly cause or attempt to cause physical harm to a family or household member. “(B) No person shall recklessly cause serious physical harm to a family or household member. “(C) No person, by threat of force, shall knowingly cause a family or household member to believe that the offender will cause imminent physical harm to the family or household member.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he domestic violence statute does not prohibit a parent from properly disciplining his or her child.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“any injury, illness, or other physiological impairment, regardless of its gravity or duration.”
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.