110 Ohio App. 3d 427 - Doe v. Adkins’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably 136 Ohio App. 3d 281 - Berge v. Columbus Community Cable Access (1999), 156 Ohio App. 3d 65 - Mark-It Place Foods, Inc. v. New Plan Excel Realty Trust, Inc. (2004)
7 federal appellate · 4 district · 44 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 Cort v. Ash · Mitseff v. Wheeler · 59 Ohio St. 3d 108 - Wing v. Anchor Media, Ltd. · Bostic v. Connor · 42 Ohio App. 3d 6 - Midwest Specialties, Inc. v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] claim of promissory estoppel involves four elements: (1) a clear and unambiguous promise, (2) reliance by the party to whom the promise was made, (3) the reliance is reasonable and foreseeable, and (4) the party *Page 14 relying on the promise must have been injured by the reliance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“While it is not necessary for a third-party beneficiary to be identified in the contract, the contract must be made and entered into with the intent to benefit the third party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the existence of a contract between the parties does not mean that every dispute between the parties is arbitrable.”
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.