State v. Lazzaro’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 153 Ohio App. 3d 44 - State v. Coe (2003), 144 Ohio App. 3d 421 - City of Akron v. Molyneaux (2001)
75 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 City of Dayton v. Rogers · State v. Bailey · United States v. Steele · City of Columbus v. Fisher · City of Columbus v. New
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he making of an unsworn false oral statement to a public official with the purpose to mislead, hamper or impede the investigation of a crime”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“knowingly swear or affirm the truth of a false statement previously made,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Davis · State v. Hall““No person, without privilege to do so and with purpose to prevent, obstruct, or delay the performance by a public official of any authorized act within his official capacity, shall do any act which hampers or impedes a public official in the performance of his lawful duties.” (Emphasis added.) R.C. 2921.31(A).”
1 later decision 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.