State v. Szefcyk’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 809 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 819 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably State v. Harper (Slip Opinion) (2020), 126 Ohio App. 3d 316 - State v. Watson (1998)
2 federal appellate · 809 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 Federated Department Stores, Inc. v. Moitie · State v. Perry · State v. Collins · State ex rel. Williams v. Cleveland · State v. Westfall
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 819 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under the doctrine of res judicata, a final judgment of conviction bars a convicted defendant who was represented by counsel from raising and litigating in any proceeding except an appeal from that judgment, any defense or any claimed lack of due process that was raised or could have been raised by the defendant at the trial, which resulted in that judgment of conviction, or on an appeal from that judgment.”
80 later decisions quote this exact passage“Res judicata is applicable in all postconviction relief proceedings.”
30 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] convicted defendant is precluded under the doctrine of res judicata from raising and litigating in any proceeding, except an appeal from that judgment, any defense or any claimed lack of due process that was raised or could have been raised by the defendant at the trial which resulted in that judgment of conviction or on appeal from that judgment.”
7 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.