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← 81 OHIOST3D 260 - State v. Stowers

State v. Stowers’s Empirical Analysis

1998

Citation profile

129
cited by 129 later decisions
3
states following
January 2026
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 127 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 129 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Nemeth (1998), United States v. Charley (1999)

2 federal appellate · 127 state decisions

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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. Boston · State v. Koss · State v. Gersin · 102 Ohio App. 3d 185 - State v. Yarber

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 129 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the truth of the facts testified to by the child, or which assists the fact finder in assessing the child's veracity.”
    14 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “between expert testimony that a child witness is telling the truth and evidence which bolsters a child's credibility.”
    9 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[a]n expert witness's testimony that the behavior of an alleged child victim of sexual abuse is consistent with behavior observed in sexually abused children is admissible under the Ohio Rules of Evidence.”
    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.