60 Ohio App. 2d 182 - State v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 9 Ohio App. 3d 1 - State v. Thorpe (1983), United States v. Reynolds (1985)
37 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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant pleads no contest, he admits to 'the truth of the facts alleged in the indictment.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial court may not find a defendant guilty based on his no contest plea if the state's statement of facts absolutely negates the existence of an essential element of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Edmonson“not only fails to include, but absolutely negative[s] the existence of, an essential element of the offense charged in the indictment,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Huston
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.