State v. Fontes’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 106 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Foust (2004), State v. Gardner (2008)
6 federal appellate · 98 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. Powell
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 106 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person, by force, stealth, or deception, shall trespass in an occupied structure ... when another person other than an accomplice of the offender is present, with purpose to commit in the structure ... any criminal offense....”) with Ohio Rev. Code Ann. § 2911.12 (A)(2) (West 1990) (”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[f]or purposes of defining the offense of aggravated burglary pursuant to R.C. 2911.11 , a defendant may form the purpose to commit a criminal offense at any point during the course of a trespass.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`[A] person who by force, stealth, or deception, trespasses in an occupied structure, is continuing a criminal trespass * * * so long as he is there without permission. * * * Thus, if during the course of this trespass a defendant forms the purpose to commit a felony offense, the crime of aggravated burglary is committed at that time. Because the `purpose to commit * * * any criminal offense' element of R.C. 2911.11 (A)(1) may be formed while the trespass is in progress, we find no error in the trial court's jury instruction to this effect.'”
2 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.