State v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
148 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Leonard (2004), Jacobson v. Kaforey (Slip Opinion) (2016)
148 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 149 Ohio St. 231 - Wachendorf v. Shaver · 146 Ohio St. 203 - Carter v. Division of Water · MacDonald v. Bernard · Cox v. Ohio Department of Transportation
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 151 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a statute, a court cannot pick out one sentence and disassociate it from the context, but must look to the four corners of the enactment to determine the intent of the enacting body.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a basic tenet of statutory construction that 'the General Assembly is not presumed to do a vain or useless thing, and that when language is inserted in a statute it is inserted to accomplish some definite purpose.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The primary goal of statutory construction is to give effect to the intent of the legislature.”
3 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.