96 Ohio App. 3d 440 - State v. Barzacchini’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 143 Ohio App. 3d 232 - State v. High (2001), 107 Ohio App. 3d 194 - State v. Brown (1995)
44 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Illinois v. Gates · Franks v. Delaware · United States v. Bagley · California v. Trombetta
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he requirement of authentication or identification as a condition precedent to admissibility is satisfied by evidence sufficient to support a finding that the matter in question is what its proponent claims.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Chain of custody is a part of the authentication and identification mandate set forth in Evid.R. 901, and the state has the burden of establishing the chain of custody of a specific piece of evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“even when a break in the chain of custody is uncovered, it goes to the credibility of the evidence and not to its admissibility”
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.