11 Ohio App. 3d 67 - Messmore v. Monarch Machine Tool Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Gearing v. Nationwide Insurance (1996), 41 Ohio App. 3d 392 - Lynn v. Allied Corp. (1987)
1 federal appellate · 39 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 Wilfong v. Batdorf · 66 Wis. 2d 563 - White v. Lunder · Viers v. Dunlap · 32 Ohio App. 2d 221 - Schiltz v. Meyer · Straub v. Voss
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] cause of action based upon a loss of consortium is a derivative action. That means that the derivative action is dependent upon the existence of a primary cause of action and can be maintained only so long as the primary action continues.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““A cause of action based upon a loss of consortium is a derivative action and as such cannot afford greater relief than that which would be permitted under the primary cause of action. Therefore, an award for loss of consortium cannot exceed that percentage of damages recoverable by the injured spouse. Such an award must be reduced by an amount that is proportionately equal to the percentage of negligence of the injured spouse in accordance with R.C. 2315.19(C).””
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.