State v. Buckingham’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Davidson (1985), State v. Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 0337 Buckeye (1991)
42 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. Collins · City of Euclid v. Heaton · State v. Waller · 10 Ohio App. 2d 92 - State v. Dodge
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(2) the ruling on the motion or motions has rendered the state's proof with respect to the pending charge so weak in its entirety that any reasonable possibility of effective prosecution has been destroyed. {¶ 15}”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“{¶ 12} “When the state takes an appeal as provided by law from an order suppressing or excluding * * * evidence, the prosecuting attorney shall certify that both of the following apply: {¶ 13} “(1) the appeal is not taken for the purpose of delay; {¶ 14} “(2) the ruling on the motion or motions has rendered the state’s proof with respect to the pending charge so weak in its entirety that any reasonable possibility of effective prosecution has been destroyed. {¶ 15} “The appeal from an order suppressing or excluding evidence shall not be allowed unless the notice of appeal and the certification by the prosecuting attorney are filed with the clerk of the trial court within seven days after the date of the entry of the judgment or order granting the motion.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““The state may take an appeal as of right * * * from the granting of a motion to suppress evidence if, in addition to filing a notice of appeal, the prosecuting attorney certifies that: (1) the appeal is not taken for the purpose of delay; and (2) the granting of the motion has rendered the state’s proof with respect to the pending charge so weak in its entirety that any reasonable possibility of effective prosecution has been destroyed. “Such appeal shall not be allowed unless the notice of appeal and the certification by the prosecuting attorney are filed with the clerk of the trial court within seven days of judgment after the date of the entry of the judgment or order granting the motion. Any appeal under this rule shall be diligently prosecuted.””
1 later decision 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.