91 Ohio App. 3d 208 - State v. Bonifas’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2025
21 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 Jackson v. Virginia · State v. Jenks · State v. Bridgeman
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o person shall make or cause to be made a telecommunication, or permit a telecommunication to be made from a telecommunications device under a person's control, with the purpose to abuse, threaten, or harass another person.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he gravamen of the offense of telephone harassment is not the fact that the recipient of the call is annoyed by the call. Rather, the offense must be proven in terms of the defendant's purpose to abuse, threaten, annoy, or harass the person called.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether, after viewing the evidence in a light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Combs
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.