73 Ohio App. 3d 672 - State v. Sowell’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Gumm (1995), 120 Ohio App. 3d 122 - State v. Aldridge (1997)
18 federal appellate · 38 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 Strickland v. Washington · Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Bagley · State v. Bradley · Caldwell v. Mississippi
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court's adoption of the findings of fact and conclusions of law submitted by the state does not, by itself, deprive the petitioner of a meaningful review of his petition for postconviction relief and does not constitute error in the absence of demonstrated prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A claim of ineffective assistance of counsel presented in a postconviction petition may be dismissed under the doctrine of res judicata when the petitioner, represented by new counsel on direct appeal, has failed to raise on appeal the issue of trial counsel's competence and the issue could fairly have been determined without evidence dehors the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Thus, a trial court's use of the state's findings of fact and conclusions of law alone fails to `deprive [a] defendant of meaningful review of his petition for postconviction relief, and does not constitute error in the absence of demonstrated prejudice.'”
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.