State v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 433 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 437 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 98 Ohio St. 3d 44 - State v. Noling (2002), State v. Williams (2012)
2 federal appellate · 433 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 State v. Adams · State v. Maurer · State v. Jamison · State v. Broom · Ohio v. Hymore
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 437 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“related to and share[s] common features with the crime in question.”
41 later decisions quote this exact passage“While `other acts' evidence may not be used to prove criminal propensity, such evidence may be admissible `if (1) there is substantial proof that the alleged other acts were committed by the defendant, and (2) the evidence tends to prove notice, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.'”
31 later decisions quote this exact passage“[e]vidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the character of a person in order to show action in conformity therewith. It may, however, be admissible for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
19 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.