MacDonald v. Bernard’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State v. Wilson (1997), Jacobson v. Kaforey (Slip Opinion) (2016)
66 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 60 Ohio App. 2d 144 - Steffen v. General Telephone Co. · 139 Ohio St. 100 - Black-Clawson Co. v. Evatt · 69 Ohio App. 59 - State, Ex Rel. Raines v. Tobin
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing a statute, a court cannot pick out one sentence and disassociate it from the context, but must look to the four corners of the enactment to determine the intent of the enacting body.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“this court is mindful of the basic and general rule that pleadings shall be construed so as to do substantial justice and to that end, shall be construed liberally in order that the substantive merits of the action may be served”). 7 . {¶ a} According to Section 652A of the Restatement of Torts 2d, at 376: {¶ b}”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““This court is very much aware of the limitations on its power to intervene in the election of public officials. The right to vote has its source in and is guaranteed by the Constitutions of Ohio and of the United States. Since public elections belong to the political branch of the government, they are a matter of political regulation and questions arising in reference to elections are subject to judicial review or cognizance only in limited areas * * *. [Citations omitted.] As such, courts should be very reluctant to interfere with the election of public officials by the people, except to enforce rights or mandatory or ministerial duties as the statutes require. The survival of our system of government requires that proper respect be given to the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box. * * *” MacDonald v. Bernard (1982), 1 Ohio St. 3d 85, 86 , 1 OBR 122, 122-123, 438 N.E. 2d 410, 411-412 .”
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.