State v. Arnett’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 788 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 797 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State v. Kalish (2008), State v. Jones (Slip Opinion) (2020)
5 federal appellate · 788 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 Witherspoon v. Illinois · Gardner v. Florida · Townsend v. Burke · State v. Mills · Barclay v. Florida
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 797 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“use specific language or make specific findings on the record in order to evince the requisite consideration of the applicable seriousness and recidivism factors.”
43 later decisions quote this exact passage“discretion to determine the most effective way to comply with the purposes and principles of sentencing,”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“catchall provision in R.C. 2929.12(A) also permits the sentencing judge to consider 'any other factors that are relevant to achieving those purposes and principles of sentencing.'”
8 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.