74 Ohio App. 3d 686 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Treesh (2001), 152 Ohio App. 3d 311 - State v. Samatar (2003)
9 federal appellate · 110 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 · State v. Bradley · Engle v. Isaac · State v. Perry · Booth v. Maryland
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“absent a showing of prejudice, does not deprive a defendant of effective assistance of counsel.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]y not presenting evidence in the case-in-chief, defense counsel obviated the need for an opening statement. The decision not to make an opening statement is a tactical decision that will not ordinarily rise to the level of ineffective assistance of counsel”
2 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.