10 Ohio App. 3d 213 - Ritchie v. Cordray’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably 47 Ohio App. 3d 156 - 37 Robinwood Associates v. Health Industries, Inc. (1988), 61 Ohio St. 3d 375 - G/GM Real Estate Corp. v. Susse Chalet Motor Lodge of Ohio, Inc. (1991)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Sause v. Ward
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a contract to buy and sell the property, but only a contract whereby the seller agrees to leave his offer to sell open for a time-certain. Confusion often arises since the option is combined with the main offer to sell and its attendant detailed terms.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“defendants were under no obligation to convey title to a buyer who, even though pressed to close the sale, had given no indication that he could or would pay for the property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is well-settled that tender of performance by one party to a contract is excused where it is clear to that party that the other party is unable to perform”
1 later decision 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.