Ash v. Ash’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 118 Ohio App. 3d 881 - Broadnax v. Greene Credit Service (1997), 130 Ohio App. 3d 186 - Reinoehl v. Trinity Universal Insurance (1998)
42 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 Trussell v. General Motors Corp. · Schumer v. Craig Distributing Co. · Shinn v. Bank of Crocker
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when its final disposition indicates that the accused is innocent.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although the accused by his acceptance of a compromise does not admit his guilt, the fact of compromise indicates that the question of his guilt or innocence is left open. Having bought peace the accused may not thereafter assert that the proceedings have terminated in his favor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) the charge is withdrawn or the prosecution abandoned pursuant to an agreement of compromise with the accused[.]”
3 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.