90 Ohio App. 3d 654 - State v. Hamann’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 80 So. 3d 999 - Del Valle v. State (2011), 108 Ohio App. 3d 489 - State v. Brown (1995)
38 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. Awan · State v. Comen · State v. Adams · State v. Cyrus · Government of the Virgin Islands v. Toto
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well established that sentences do not violate these constitutional provisions against cruel and unusual punishment unless the sentences are so grossly disproportionate to the offenses as to shock the sense of justice in the community. State v. Chaffin (1972), 30 Ohio St.2d 13 , 59 O.O.2d 51 , 282 N.E.2d 46 ; State v. Jarrells (1991), 72 Ohio App.3d 730 , 596 N.E.2d 477 .”
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.