State v. Richey’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 428 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 446 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Garner (1995), State v. Conway (2006)
10 federal appellate · 428 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Jenks · Rhode Island v. Innis · State v. Bradley
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 446 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ircumstantial evidence may be more certain, satisfying and persuasive than direct evidence.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“Authentication `is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.' Evid.R. 901(A). The possibility of contamination goes to the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility. `A strict chain of custody is not always required in order for physical evidence to be admissible.' State v. Wilkins (1980), 64 Ohio St.2d 382 , 389 , 18 O.O.3d 528, 532 , 415 N.E.2d 303 , 308 ; see State v. Downs (1977), 51 Ohio St.2d 47 , 63 , 5 O.O.3d 30, 38 , 364 N.E.2d 1140 , 1150.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]n a bench trial, the court must be presumed to have `considered only the relevant, material, and competent evidence in arriving at its judgment unless it affirmatively appears to the contrary.'”
4 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.