101 Ohio App. 3d 38 - Coventry Township v. Ecker’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
512 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 512 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably 123 Ohio App. 3d 158 - Helton v. Scioto County Board of Commissioners (1997), White v. Westfall (2009)
512 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 59 Ohio St. 3d 108 - Wing v. Anchor Media, Ltd. · 80 Ohio App. 3d 487 - McKay v. Cutlip · Marano v. Gibbs · A & B Refuse Disposers, Inc. v. Board of Ravenna Township Trustees · 107 Ohio App. 288 - Freight, Inc. v. Board of Township Trustees
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 512 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We must affirm the trial court's judgment if any of the grounds raised by the movant in the trial court are found to support it, even if the trial court failed to consider those grounds.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“must affirm the trial court's judgment if any of the grounds the movant raised before the trial court support the judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(A) For party seeking affirmative relief. A party seeking to recover upon a claim, counterclaim, or cross-claim or to obtain a declaratory judgment may move with or without supporting affidavits for a summary judgment in the party's favor as to all or any part of the claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or declaratory judgment action. * * * (C) Motion and proceedings. * * * The adverse party prior to the day of hearing may serve and file opposing affidavits. Summary judgment shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, written admissions, affidavits, transcripts of evidence, and written stipulations of fact, if any, timely filed in the action, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. No evidence or stipulation may be considered except as stated in this rule. A summary judgment shall not be rendered unless it appears from the evidence or stipulation, and only from the evidence or stipulation, that reasonable minds can come to but one conclusion and that conclusion is adverse to the party against whom the motion for summary judgment is made, that party being entitled to have the evidence or stipulation construed most strongly in the party's favor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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