86 Ohio App. 3d 592 - State v. Guysinger’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
959 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 959 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 124 Ohio App. 3d 706 - State v. McNamara (1997), 111 Ohio App. 3d 142 - State v. Medcalf (1996)
959 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 Terry v. Ohio · State v. Fanning · State v. Mills · State v. Andrews · State v. Childs
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 959 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]ecause the trial court acts as the trier of fact in suppression hearings and is in the best position to resolve factual Licking County, Case No. 14 CA 6 6 issues and evaluate the credibility of witnesses, an appellate court must accept the trial court's findings of fact if they are supported by competent, credible evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the trial court assumes the role of trier of facts and is in the best position to resolve questions of fact and evaluate the credibility of witnesses.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Accepting those facts as true, [the reviewing court] must independently determine as a matter of law, without deference to the trial court's conclusion, whether they meet the applicable legal standard.”
3 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.