81 Ohio App. 3d 85 - State v. Varner’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably 119 Ohio St. 3d 375 - State v. Brady (2008), 181 Ohio App. 3d 106 - State v. Preztak (2009)
71 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 Fortner v. Thomas · 17 Ohio App. 3d 175 - State v. McNamee
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a defendant in a criminal action files a motion to dismiss which goes beyond the face of the indictment, he is, essentially, moving for summary judgment. {¶ 22} "The Ohio Rules of Criminal Procedure, however, do not allow for `summary judgment' on an indictment prior to trial.”
9 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.