63 Ohio App. 3d 91 - State v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 119 Ohio St. 3d 375 - State v. Brady (2008), 181 Ohio App. 3d 106 - State v. Preztak (2009)
98 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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] motion to dismiss 'tests the sufficiency of the indictment [or complaint], without regard to the quantity or quality of evidence that may be produced by either the state or the defendant.'”
12 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.