O'Brien v. Angley’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 406 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 411 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Hancock (2006), State v. Lundgren (1995)
3 federal appellate · 406 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 Bruni v. Tatsumi · State v. Bayless · 153 Ohio St. 349 - Hallworth v. Republic Steel Corp. · Norwood v. Kirkpatrick · Westinghouse Electric Corp. v. Dolly Madison Leasing & Furniture Corp.
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 411 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The scope of cross-examination and the admissibility of evidence during cross-examination are matters which rest in the sound discretion of the trial judge. Thus, when the trial court determines that certain evidence will be admitted or excluded from trial, it is well established that the order or ruling of the court will not be reversed unless there has been a clear and prejudicial abuse of discretion.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“it does not affect substantial rights of the complaining party, or where the court's action is not inconsistent with substantial justice.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`Generally, in order to find that substantial justice has been done to [a party] so as to prevent reversal of a judgment for errors occurring at the trial, the reviewing court must not only weigh the prejudicial effect of those errors, but also determine that if those errors had not occurred, the jury or other trier of the facts would probably have made the same decision.'”
3 later decisions 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.