Case Citator › State v. Eppinger

State v. Eppinger

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Superseded by statute
Court
Supreme Court of Ohio
Citation
91 Ohio St. 3d 158
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
53 of 53
Citing cases (total)
53
Treatment dates
2010
Superseded by statute
A reviewed court treats this case as superseded by later legislation. State v. Eppinger's individualized hearing rule was superseded by Ohio's Adam Walsh Act for offenses governed by the new classification scheme; all 53 flagged citations have been read. The statutory change is identified below.
More on how this was screened

Eppinger continues to govern classifications under the earlier law, which later courts continued to apply.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

53 later cases cite State v. Eppinger; 53 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

Relying on State v. Eppinger?

This page shows what later courts did to it. Ask about your specific facts and see whether it still carries your argument, with citations you can check.

Treatments

Superseded by statute

  • The Supreme Court of Ohio explained that the Adam Walsh Act replaced Eppinger's individualized sexual offender classification hearings with offense based tiers.

    State v. Bodyke · Supreme Court of Ohio · filed

    {¶ 20} The following year, the General Assembly enacted 2007 Am.Sub.S.B. No. 10.4 S.B. 10 repealed Megan’s Law and replaced it with a new, retroactive scheme that includes the tier system required by Congress. R.C. Chapter 2950. ... {¶ 21} The former categories of sexually oriented offender, habitual sex offender, and sexual predator no longer exist, nor is the court required to hold classification hearings as before. ... In State v. Eppinger (2001), 91 Ohio St.3d 158, 743 N.E.2d 881, we emphasized the importance of the classification hearing in assessing each offender on an individualized basis, avoiding wholesale labeling of offenders as sexual predators based only on a conviction, and advancing the purpose of the legislation, which was to protect the public:
    Read the full opinion on CourtListener →

Does this case still carry your argument?

Describe your facts. Ezel reads State v. Eppinger and the cases that treated it, then tells you whether it still holds for your situation, with citations.

Opens in Ezel Pro.

  • Checks the law as it stands today, not only this page
  • Cites every source it relies on, so you can verify it
  • Chat, drafting and research in one workspace