State v. Myers’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
290 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 292 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably State v. Hale (2008), State v. Adams (Slip Opinion) (2015)
290 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 Strickland v. Washington · Jackson v. Virginia · Barker v. Wingo · Franks v. Delaware · State v. Jenks
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 292 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An abuse of discretion connotes more than an error of law or judgment; it implies that the court's attitude was unreasonable, arbitrary, or unconscionable.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]e will ordinarily refrain from second-guessing strategic decisions counsel make at trial, even where counsel's trial strategy was questionable. State v. Clayton (1980), 62 Ohio St.2d 45 , 49 , 16 O.O.3d 35 , 402 N.E.2d 1189 .”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“is the fairness of the trial, not the culpability of the prosecutor.”
5 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.