113 Ohio App. 3d 760 - Fowler v. Williams County Commissioners’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2022
11 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 Mitseff v. Wheeler · 87 Ohio App. 3d 704 - Brown v. Scioto Cty. Bd. of Commrs. · 67 Ohio App. 3d 723 - Rhodus v. Ohio Department of Transportation · Simmers v. Bentley Construction Co. · State ex rel. Cassels v. Dayton City School District Board of Education
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Wanton and reckless conduct' is defined as perversely disregarding a known risk, or acting or intentionally failing to act in contravention of a duty, knowing or having reason to know of facts which would lead a reasonable person to realize such conduct creates an unreasonable risk of harm substantially greater than the risk necessary to make the conduct negligent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“despite the fact that R.C. 4511.11 (A) imposes a duty on political subdivisions to follow the OMUTCD, the decision to install the traffic control devices is discretionary . . . Therefore, in a case where the political subdivision decided not to post any signs, it is immune from liability for failure to follow the OMUTCD.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“based on its failure to comply with the directives of the Ohio Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (”
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.