10 Ohio App. 3d 50 - Davis v. Suggs’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 158 Ohio App. 3d 206 - Long v. Noah's Lost Ark, Inc. (2004), 85 Wash. App. 354 - Alaska Pacific Trading Co. v. Eagon Forest Products, Inc. (1997)
3 federal appellate · 41 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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“{¶ 32} “ ‘Abandonment’ has been described as an: {¶ 33} “ ‘* * * absolute unequivocal relinquishment of a right or status without regard to self or any other person. It is a virtual throwing away without regard as to who may take over or carry on. It is a total discarding of what existed or went before; and evidence thereof must be direct, affirmative or reasonably beget the exclusive inference of throwing away.’ State, ex rel. Reeder, v. Municipal Civil Service Comm. (C.P.1958), 82 Ohio Law Abs. 225, 237 , 165 N.E.2d 490 , affirmed (1959), 166 N.E.2d 264 . {¶ 34} “* * *”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Abandonment requires affirmative proof of the intent to abandon coupled with acts or omissions implementing the intent.”
3 later decisions 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.