11 Ohio App. 3d 31 - Pyle v. Pyle’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 174 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 290 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Petyan v. Ellis (1986), 122 Ohio App. 3d 378 - Brewer v. Cleveland City Schools Board of Education (1997)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 174 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 Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America · Agis v. Howard Johnson Co. · Paugh v. Hanks · Womack v. Eldridge · 85 Wash. 2d 52 - Grimsby v. Samson
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 290 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the actor either intended to cause emotional distress or knew or should have known that actions taken would result in serious emotional distress to the plaintiff, (2) that the actor’s conduct was so extreme and outrageous as to go “beyond all possible bounds of decency” and was such that it can be considered as “utterly intolerable in a civilized community,” (3) that the actor’s actions were the proximate cause of plaintiffs psychic injury, and (4) that the mental anguish suffered by plaintiff is serious and of a nature that “no reasonable man could be expected to endure it.””
65 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * ) time and labor, novelty of issues raised, and necessary skill to pursue the course of action; 2) customary fees in the locality for similar legal services; 3) result obtained; and 4) experience, reputation and ability of counsel. See DR 2-106(B), Code of Professional Responsibility * * *.” Pyle v. Pyle (1983), 11 Ohio App.3d 31, 35 , 11 OBR 63, 68, 463 N.E.2d 98, 104 , citing with approval Swanson v. Swanson (1976), 48 Ohio App.2d 85 , 2 O.O.3d 65 , 355 N.E.2d 894 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he award of attorney fees is to be a reasonable amount determined by the trial court upon presentation of sworn evidence.”
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.