State v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
110 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 112 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably In re A.J.S. (2008), State v. Patrick (Slip Opinion) (2020)
110 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. Perry · State v. Schiebel · State v. Davidson · State v. Fisher · State v. Ferman
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 112 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“even when a trial court's order constitutes a final order pursuant to R.C. 2505.02 and 2505.03, the state may appeal from that order only by leave of the court of appeals unless it is one of the types of orders that R.C. 2945.67(A) permits the state to appeal as of right”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Wright“(B) An order is a final order that may be reviewed, affirmed, modified, or reversed, with or without retrial, when it is one of the following: {¶ 22}”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(2) An order that affects a substantial right made in a special proceeding or upon a summary application in an action after judgment; {¶ 24}”
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.