Francis v. Bieber’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2018
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 138 Ohio St. 81 - Smiley v. Arrow Spring Bed Co. · Bird v. Hart · 131 Ohio St. 471 - Kormos v. Cleveland Retail Credit Men's Co. · 139 Ohio St. 141 - Kohn v. B. F. Goodrich Co.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts will not attempt to enforce the provisions of a statute which are impossible of fulfillment, for the courts will presume that the Legislature did not intend to do an absurd or impossible thing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]here the defense of sudden emergency is unwarranted, it is prejudicial error for the trial court to charge the jury thereon.”
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.