77 Ohio App. 3d 448 - State v. Cola’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Meddock (2017), State v. David, Unpublished Decision (7-21-2006) (2006)
33 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. Dehass · State v. Bridgeman · State v. Haynes · City of Cincinnati v. McCartney
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Possess' or `Possession' means having control over a thing or substance, but it may not be inferred solely from mere access to the thing or substance or through ownership or occupation of the premises upon which the thing or substance is found.”
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.