70 Ohio App. 3d 821 - Defiance v. Cannon’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 81 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 99 Ohio App. 3d 722 - State v. Nathan (1995), Goff v. Bagley (2010)
2 federal appellate · 81 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 · Cuyler v. Sullivan · Powell v. State of Alabama Patterson · State v. Bradley · Argersinger v. Hamlin
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of allocution is to allow the defendant an additional opportunity to state any further information which the judge may take into consideration when determining the sentence to be imposed.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“shall afford counsel an opportunity to speak on behalf of the defendant and address the defendant personally and ask if he or she wishes to make a statement in his or her own behalf or present any information in mitigation of punishment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he failure of an attorney to file motions can be attributed to sound trial strategy as well as to ethical considerations of filing potentially frivolous motions and the assessments of the merits and likelihood of the success of the proceedings contemplated.”
1 later decision 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.