65 Ohio App. 3d 24 - State v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2024
10 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Oyler v. Boles · State v. Eley · 34 Ohio St. 2d 250 - State v. Clay · State v. Young
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(A) No person, except as authorized by law, shall treat a human corpse in a way that he knows would outrage reasonable family sensibilities. “(B) No person, except as authorized by law, shall treat a human corpse in a way that would outrage reasonable community sensibilities. “(C) Whoever violates division (A) of this section is guilty of abuse of a corpse, a misdemeanor of the second degree. Whoever violates division (B) of this section is guilty of gross abuse of a corpse, a felony of the fourth degree.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We find that a rational distinction can be made between conduct or treatment of a corpse which, although it would certainly offend and outrage the family of the deceased, would not necessarily offend and outrage the community in general, and conduct such as existed in this case which would certainly offend and outrage the entire community despite the lack of personal relationship with the deceased.” Gardner, 65 Ohio App.3d at 28-29 , 582 N.E.2d at 1017 .”
1 later decision 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.