70 Ohio App. 3d 774 - State v. Blair’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2025
16 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 Schmerber v. State of California · Frye v. United States · State v. Maurer · State v. Unger · State v. Williams
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t must also be remembered that the [DNA] test results did not indicate that Blair murdered Buxton. Instead, it indicated that the semen found on the car seat was Blair's. This in turn proves that Blair was in the car on the night of the murder, thus corroborating Pestke's testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blair“Cellmark determined that Blair's DNA matched the DNA from the semen stain, and that this particular banding pattern occurs in only one out of every 2.6 million Caucasian males.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blair“DNA analysis of the semen stains might have worked to the benefit, instead of the detriment, of the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Blair
How this case has been treated — in progress
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