Kinney v. Mathias’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Rand v. Rand (1985), Floor Craft Floor Covering, Inc. v. Parma Community General Hospital Ass'n (1990)
56 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 C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · State ex rel. Shady Acres Nursing Home, Inc. v. Rhodes · 24 Ohio App. 2d 149 - Beiter v. Beiter · 38 Ohio App. 2d 45 - In Re Russek · 111 Ohio App. 534 - Logan v. Logan
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law in Ohio is clear that an appellate court will not disturb the findings of the trier of fact unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence. Landis v. Kelly (1875), 27 Ohio St. 567 ; State, ex rel. Shady Acres Nursing Home, Inc., v. Rhodes (1983), 7 Ohio St.3d 7 , 7 OBR 318, 455 N.E.2d 489 . Moreover, if the judgment of the trial court is supported by some competent, credible evidence, it will not be reversed by a reviewing court as being against the manifest weight of the evidence. C.E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. (1978), 54 Ohio St.2d 279 [ 8 O.O.3d 261 , 376 N.E.2d 578 ]; State, ex rel. Shady Acres Nursing Home, Inc., supra.” Kinney v. Mathias (1984), 10 Ohio St.3d 72, 73-74 , 10 OBR 361, 362, 461 N.E.2d 901, 903 .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'Laches is an omission to assert a right for an unreasonable and unexplained length of time, under circumstances prejudicial to the adverse party. It signifies delay independent of limitations in statutes. It is lodged principally in equity jurisprudence.' " In order to invoke the doctrine, the following must be established: "Delay in asserting a right does not of itself constitute laches, and in order to successfully invoke the equitable doctrine of laches it must be shown that the person for whose benefit the doctrine will operate has been materially prejudiced by the delay of the person asserting his claim.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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