60 Ohio App. 2d 325 - State v. Hardy’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 107 Ohio App. 3d 51 - State v. Messer (1995), 206 Wis. 2d 199 - State v. Coleman (1996)
7 federal appellate · 96 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 Brown v. United States · 109 Ohio St. 281 - State v. Champion · City of Washington Court House v. McStowe
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to `have' a firearm [within the meaning of R.C. 2923.13 ], one must either actually or constructively possess it.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) * * * no person shall knowingly acquire, have, carry, or use any firearm or dangerous ordnance, if * * * (3) [t]he person is under indictment for or has been convicted of any offense involving the illegal possession, use, sale, administration, distribution, or trafficking in any drug of abuse * * *.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“restrict the right of an individual under disability from acting in self-defense, when he did not knowingly acquire, have, carry or use a firearm previously.”
2 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.