State v. Swartz’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State ex rel. Doner v. Zody (2011), Sexton v. City of Mason (2008)
30 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 Toussie v. United States · State v. Hensley · State v. Climaco, Climaco, Seminatore, Lefkowitz & Garofoli Co., L.P.A. · Kansas Pacific Railway v. Mihlman · 41 Ohio App. 3d 356 - Boll v. Griffith
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Generally, statutes of limitations begin to run when the crime is complete.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This 'limitation is No. 15AP-708 8 designed to protect individuals from having to defend themselves against charges when the basic facts may have become obscured by the passage of time and to minimize the danger of official punishment because of acts in the far-distant past.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simmons“the course of conduct remains under the control of the accused, the statute of limitations does not begin to run.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Simmons
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.