100 Ohio App. 3d 577 - Brannan v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 17 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[w]hen a trial court fails to rule on a motion, the appellate court presumes that the trial court overruled the motion.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Seff v. Davis, Unpublished Decision (12-23-2003) · Cline v. Mtge. Electronic Registration Sys., Inc.

2. ““No agreement to make a will or to make a devise or bequest by will shall be enforceable unless it is in writing. Such agreement must be signed by the maker or by some other person at such maker’s express direction. If signed by a person other than such maker, the instrument must be subscribed by two or more competent witnesses who heard such maker acknowledge that it was signed at his direction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 119 Ohio App. 3d 646 - Gottfried-Smith v. Gottfried

3. “[g]enerally, the performance of services as consideration of a promise to convey land is insufficient to justify enforcement of an oral agreement. However, services may be sufficient partial performance if the services are such that they cannot be readily valued in money.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Mays v. Dunaway, Unpublished Decision (12-19-2003)