79 Ohio App. 3d 720 - State v. Spinks’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 102 Ohio App. 3d 28 - State v. Braxton (1995), State v. Richcreek (2011)
2 federal appellate · 21 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. Sage · State v. Smith · State v. Bridgeman · State v. Underwood · State v. Melchior
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“made clear that if the state failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt any one essential element of aggravated No. 18AP-384 11 murder or murder, or if the defendant proved by a preponderance of the evidence the defense of self-defense, then the defendant is not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O.A.B.“A defendant, when arguing self-defense, may testify about specific instances of the victim's prior conduct which were known to the defendant in order to establish the defendant's state of mind.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prejudicially failed to define 'preponderance of the evidence' as it relates to the issue of self-defense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. O.A.B.
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.