State v. Golston’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

275

cited by 275 later decisions

states following

February 2026

most recently cited

275 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 275 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Cyran v. Cyran (Slip Opinion) (2018), In re S.J.K. (2007)

275 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. Wilson · State v. Berndt · 80 Ohio App. 3d 542 - 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 275 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[A] person convicted of a felony has a substantial stake in the judgment of conviction which survives the satisfaction of the judgment imposed upon him or her.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
e.g. State v. Ambriez, Unpublished Decision (11-4-2005) · State v. Mathis, 23507 (8-13-2008)
“Where a criminal defendant, convicted of a misdemeanor, voluntarily satisfies the judgment imposed upon him or her for that offense, an appeal from the conviction is moot unless the defendant has offered evidence from which an inference can be drawn that he or she will suffer some collateral legal disability or loss of civil rights stemming from that conviction.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. City of Garfield Heights v. McElroy, Unpublished Decision (12-11-2003) · State v. Hicks, Unpublished Decision (8-19-2005)
“an appeal is moot when no evidence is offered from which an inference can be drawn that the defendant will suffer some collateral disability or loss of civil rights from such *Page 4 judgment or conviction.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. State v. Ambriez, Unpublished Decision (11-4-2005) · State v. Strohl, Unpublished Decision (3-31-2006)

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.