State v. Widner’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
310 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 320 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Carter (1995), State v. Johnson (2001)
310 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 Terry v. Ohio · Brown v. Texas · State v. Eley · State v. Lockett · 39 Ohio App. 2d 139 - City of Columbus v. Russell
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 320 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(A) A person acts purposely when it is his specific intention to cause a certain result, or, when the gist of the offense is a prohibition against conduct of a certain nature, regardless of what the offender intends to accomplish thereby, it is his specific intention to engage in conduct of that nature.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the mere presence of an accused at the scene of a crime is not sufficient to prove, in and of itself, that the accused was an aider and abettor.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a firearm is an inherently dangerous instrumentality, the use of which is reasonably likely to produce death”
14 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.