State v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 646 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 661 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably State v. Madrigal (2000), State v. Issa (2001)
7 federal appellate · 646 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 Strickland v. Washington · Batson v. Kentucky · State v. Jenks · State v. Bradley · State v. Dehass
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 661 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due process, as guaranteed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Section 16 , Article I of the Ohio Constitution, requires that an indigent criminal defendant be provided funds to obtain expert assistance at state expense only where the trial court finds, in the exercise of a sound discretion, that the defendant has made a particularized showing (1) of a reasonable probability that the requested expert would aid in his defense, and (2) that denial of the requested expert assistance would result in an unfair trial.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ake v. Oklahoma , 470 U.S. 68 , 77, 105 S.Ct. 1087 , 84 L.Ed.2d 53 (1985), quoting Britt v. North Carolina , 404 U.S. 226 , 227, 92 S.Ct. 431 , 30 L.Ed.2d 400 (1971). However, due process, under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution and Section 16, Article I of the Ohio Constitution, does not require the state to provide an expert to an indigent defendant in the absence of a particularized showing of need. State v. Mason , 82 Ohio St.3d 144 , 150, 694 N.E.2d 932 (1998). A defendant must demonstrate”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court must indulge a strong presumption that counsel's conduct falls within the wide range of reasonable professional assistance.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re S.J. · State v. Trafton
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.