Davis v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 82 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Boswell (2009), State ex rel. Kline v. Carroll (2002)
82 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 142 Ohio St. 91 - Lester v. Leuck · State ex rel. Wilson-Simmons v. Lake County Sheriff's Department · Kaine v. Warden · State ex rel. Woods v. Oak Hill Community Medical Center, Inc. · 208 W. Va. 218 - Roberts v. Consolidation Coal Co.
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 82 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]t the end or termination of the period of probation, the jurisdiction of the judge or magistrate to impose sentence ceases and the defendant shall be discharged.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a party is not permitted to take advantage of an error that he himself invited or induced the court to make.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Davis's five-year probationary period, even assuming it was tolled for all of the time he was incarcerated following his probation, would have expired well before the common pleas court revoked his probation and reimposed his sentence in April 1999. Based on the foregoing, the common pleas court lacked jurisdiction to revoke his probation and sentence him on that date because his probationary period had already expired. R.C. 2951.09 . The court of appeals thus properly granted the writ and ordered Davis's release from prison.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.