LaBarbera v. Batsch’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
15 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably National Amusements, Inc. v. City of Springdale (1990), Wyler v. Tripi (1971)
15 federal appellate · 80 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 142 Ohio St. 299 - Norwood v. McDonald · 155 Ohio St. 203 - State Ex Rel. Schneider v. Brewer · State ex rel. Sylvania Home Telephone Co. v. Richards · Mason v. Waters · 130 Ohio St. 537 - Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. McAllister
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he fact that the trial court's decision was based on what was ultimately determined to be an incorrect statement of the law is of no consequence, as the Supreme Court has held that `there is no exception in the doctrine of res judicata for merely erroneous judgments.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he doctrine of res judicata would be abrogated if every decision could be relitigated on the ground that it is erroneous, and there would be no stability of decision, or no end to litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A] dismissal on the ground that an action is barred by the statute of limitations is a determination on the merits.”
2 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.