71 Ohio App. 3d 162 - State v. Sorrels’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
72 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Richcreek (2011), 124 Ohio App. 3d 40 - State v. Hirtzinger (1997)
72 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 Chapman v. State of California · State v. Dehass · Tibbs v. Florida · State v. Sage · State v. Maurer
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since Evid.R. 802 expressly states that 'hearsay is not admissible,' a trial court's decision to admit hearsay is not governed by the test of abuse of discretion. Instead, errors relating to the trial court's admission of hearsay must be reviewed in light No. 13AP-397 4 of Evid.R. 103(A) and Crim.R. 52(A), which provide that such errors are harmless unless the record demonstrates that the errors affected a substantial right of the party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a statement, other than one made by the declarant while testifying at the trial or hearing, offered in evidence to prove the truth of the matter asserted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the reviewing court must find that there is no reasonable possibility that the evidence may have contributed to the defendant's conviction.”
1 later decision 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.