110 Ohio App. 3d 591 - Nichols v. Hanzel’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably 138 Ohio App. 3d 244 - Schafer v. Rms Realty (2000), 157 Ohio App. 3d 325 - Southside River-Rail Terminal, Inc. v. Crum & Forster Underwriters (2004)
46 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · State v. Adams · Berk v. Matthews · Bruni v. Tatsumi · Pang v. Minch
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the trial court, after construing the evidence most strongly in favor of the party against whom the motion is directed, finds that upon any determinative issue reasonable minds could come to but one conclusion upon the evidence submitted and that conclusion is adverse to such party[.]”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he party moving for a directed verdict must show that the testimony was resolved in its favor by direct contradiction, negation, or recantation of the testimony given by the witness on direct examination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Because a motion for a directed verdict presents a question of law, an appellate court must conduct a de novo review of the trial court's judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.