State v. McDermott’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Zurz v. 770 West Broad Aga, L.L.C. (2011), Boone v. Vanliner Insurance (2001)
2 federal appellate · 73 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. Post · 147 Ohio St. 416 - Weis v. Weis · State v. Smorgala · State ex rel. Lambdin v. Brenton · 128 Ohio St. 124 - Williamson Heater. Co. v. Radich
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“provides the exclusive means by which privileged communications directly between an attorney and a client can be waived.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The following persons shall not testify in certain respects: “(A) An attorney, concerning a communication made to the attorney by a client in that relation or the attorney’s advice to a client, except that the attorney may testify by express consent of the client or, * * * if the client voluntarily testifies * * *, the attorney may be compelled to testify on the same subject[.]””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(Emphasis added.) {¶ 13} In Weis v. Weis (1947), 147 Ohio St. 416 , 34 O.O. 350 , 72 N.E.2d 245 , paragraph four of the syllabus, we held that G.C. 11494 (the predecessor to R.C. 2317.02) affords”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McDermott
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.