State v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably State v. Horner (2010), State v. Lozier (2004)
58 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 Boyce Motor Lines, Inc. v. United States · Provident Bank v. Wood · Columbus-Suburban Coach Lines, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission · State v. Jordan · State v. Wac
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the section defining an offense does not specify any degree of culpability, and plainly indicates a purpose to impose strict criminal liability for the conduct described in the section, then culpability is not required for a person to be guilty of the offense. When the section neither specifies culpability nor plainly indicates a purpose to impose strict liability, recklessness is sufficient culpability to commit the offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`a crime may have different degrees of mental culpability for different elements.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] court must be able to answer in the negative the following two questions before applying the element of recklessness pursuant to R.C. 2901.21 (B): (1) does the section defining an *Page 10 offense specify any degree of culpability, and (2) does the section plainly indicate a purpose to impose strict criminal liability? * * * Appellant argues that the court of appeals misinterpreted the word "section" in R.C. 2901.21 (B) to mean "division" of a Revised Code section, and mistakenly applied R.C. 2901.21 . We agree. The General Assembly distinguishes between sections and divisions in the Ohio Revised Code. * * * Thus, in determining whether R.C. 2901.21 (B) can operate to supply the mental element of recklessness to R.C. 2907.321 (A)(6), we need to determine whether the entire section includes a mental element, not just whether division ( A)(6) includes such an element.”
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.