110 Ohio App. 3d 46 - Wiltberger v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 185 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 149 Ohio App. 3d 390 - Riston v. Butler (2002), 154 Ohio App. 3d 471 - Landskroner v. Landskroner (2003)
179 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 C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · 81 Ohio App. 3d 286 - Ceol v. Zion Industries, Inc. · Zacchini v. Scripps-Howard Broadcasting Co. · 95 Ohio App. 3d 151 - Riley v. Langer · 74 Ohio App. 3d 707 - Passmore v. Greene County Board of Elections
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 185 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(ii) It is not warranted under existing law and cannot be supported by a good faith argument for an extension, modification, or reversal of existing law.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“Review of a trial court's factual determinations involves some degree of deference, and we will not disturb a trial court's findings of fact where the record contains competent, credible evidence to support such findings.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here a trial court has found the existence of frivolous conduct, the decision to assess or not to assess a penalty lies within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
4 later decisions 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.