6 Ohio App. 3d 56 - State v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Hoover v. Garfield Heights Municipal Court (1986), 105 Ohio App. 3d 545 - City of Columbus v. Henry (1995)
8 federal appellate · 36 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 Starnes v. Penrod Drilling Co. · City of Columbus v. Fraley · State v. Paglia · 26 Ohio App. 2d 138 - City of Cleveland v. Mechanic · 64 Ohio Misc. 15 - City of Willoughby v. Hoffman
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of excessive or unnecessary force by an arresting officer, a private citizen may not use force to resist arrest by one he knows, or has good reason to believe, is an authorized police officer engaged in the performance of his duties, whether or not the arrest is illegal under the circumstances.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The question is whether, under the circumstances, it is probable that a reasonable police officer would find the language and conduct annoying or alarming and would be provoked to want to respond violently.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.