State v. Bassham’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably State v. Danison (2005), Dayton v. Stewart (2021)
34 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 Pitts v. Ohio Department of Transportation · State v. Davidson · State v. Buckingham · State v. Fraternal Order of Eagles Aerie 0337 Buckeye · State v. Malinovsky
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]here are some instances when a prosecutor can be placed in a dilemma by a trial court's ruling on a motion to suppress. A prosecutor who is faced with an unclear trial order cannot reasonably be expected to certify that the chance for effective prosecution has been destroyed until the decision of the court is clarified. If the prosecutor is forced to file an appeal from an unclear order, as the majority's syllabus seems to require, the prosecutor may be certifying something that in actuality does not destroy `any *Page 6 reasonable possibility of effective prosecution.' In that situation, the prosecutor faces a dilemma — if the prosecutor does choose to file a certified appeal it may appear in hindsight that he or she did not act in good faith if the trial court's order as clarified does not destroy the chance to prosecute, but if the prosecutor chooses not to appeal, he or she may lose the opportunity to appeal if the trial court's ruling as later clarified does destroy the chance to prosecute." Id. at 273 (Resnick, J., concurring).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The appeal from an order suppressing or excluding evidence shall not be allowed unless the notice of appeal and the certification by the prosecuting attorney are filed with the clerk of the trial court within seven days after the date of the entry of the judgment or order granting the motion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] prosecuting attorney * * * may appeal as a matter of right any decision of a trial court in a criminal case, * * * which decision grants * * * a motion to suppress evidence.”
2 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.