State v. Gipson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
252 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 252 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 97 Ohio St. 3d 309 - State v. Thomas (2002), 184 Ohio App. 3d 675 - State v. Pilgrim (2009)
252 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. Pless · State v. Meade · Read v. City of South Bend · 91 Ohio App. 3d 301 - State v. Lefever · 104 Ohio App. 3d 785 - State v. Pendleton
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 252 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an offender alleges in an affidavit filed with the court prior to sentencing that the offender is indigent and unable to pay the mandatory fine and if the court determines the offender is an indigent person and is unable to pay the mandatory fine described in this division, the court shall not impose the mandatory fine upon the offender.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“the burden is upon the offender to affirmatively demonstrate that he or she is indigent and is unable to pay the mandatory fine.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“the affidavit must be delivered to the clerk of court for purposes of filing and must be indorsed by the clerk of court, i.e., time-stamped, prior to the filing of the journal entry reflecting the trial court's sentencing decision.”
6 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.