64 Ohio App. 3d 63 - State v. Parsons’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 87 Ohio App. 3d 279 - State v. Feltner (1993), 179 Ohio App. 3d 666 - State v. Kelley (2008)
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 Beck v. State of Ohio · Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Raddatz · McCray v. State of Illinois · B.D. International Discount Corp. v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
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.
“Something more than speculation about the possible usefulness of an informant's testimony is required.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the testimony of the informant is vital to establishing an element of the crime or would be helpful or beneficial to the accused in preparing or making a defense to criminal charges.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the government's privilege to withhold the identity of persons who furnish information concerning criminal conduct.”
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.