State v. Clemons’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
197 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 201 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Issa (2001), State v. Conway (2006)
197 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 · Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Thompkins · State v. Jenks · Berger v. United States
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 201 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The verdict will not be disturbed unless the appellate court finds that reasonable minds could not reach the conclusion reached by the trier of fact.”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he relevant inquiry is whether, after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“during proceedings is not error. The comment that a witness other than the accused did not testify is not improper, State v. D'Ambrosio (1993), 67 Ohio St.3d 185 , 193 , 616 N.E.2d 909 , 916 , since the prosecution may comment upon the failure of the defense to offer evidence in support of its case. State v. Williams (1986), 23 Ohio St.3d 16 , 19-20 , 23 OBR 13 , 16-17 , 490 N.E.2d 906 , 910-911 ; State v. Bies (1996), 74 Ohio St.3d 320 , 326 , 658 N.E.2d 754 , 760.”
5 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.