81 Ohio App. 3d 179 - State v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
150 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 99 Ohio App. 3d 275 - State v. Mundy (1994), 116 Ohio App. 3d 441 - In Re Anderson (1996)
150 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · State v. Dehass · State v. Williams · State v. Self
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.
“type, nature and circumstances of the contact, along with the personality of the defendant.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage“any touching of an erogenous zone of another, including without limitation the thigh, genitals, buttock, pubic region, or, if the person is a female, a breast, for the purpose of sexually arousing or gratifying either person.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“In most cases the child will be a competent witness if the child has the intellectual capacity to accurately and truthfully recount events occurring during the same time period as the events about which he is to testify at trial.”
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.