State v. Gill’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably 127 Ohio App. 3d 328 - State v. Long (1998), State v. Haight (2006)
37 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 Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · City of Mentor v. Giordano · State v. Cleary · State v. McGlone · Hiegel v. State
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person who is in the driver's seat of a motor vehicle with the ignition key in the ignition and who, in his or her body has a prohibited concentration of alcohol, is `operating' the vehicle within the meaning of R.C. 4511.19 whether or not the engine of the vehicle is running.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our holdings in Cleary [, supra,] and [State v.] McGlone [(1991), 59 Ohio St.3d 122 , 570 N.E.2d 1115 ,] were never intended to require the state to prove that the defendant had started the vehicle's engine after consuming alcohol or that the engine was running at the time the defendant is apprehended. A clear purpose of R.C. 4511.19 is to discourage persons from putting themselves in the position in which they can potentially cause the movement of a motor vehicle while intoxicated or under the influence of any drug of abuse. Accord Cleary and McGlone , supra. Prohibition of potentially harmful conduct need not await occurrence of the act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Operation of a motor vehicle within the contemplation of the statute is a broader term than mere driving and a person in the driver’s position in the front seat with the ignition key in his possession indicating either his actual or potential movement of the vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or any drug of abuse can be found in violation of R.C. 4511.19(A).” (Emphasis added.)”
2 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.