119 Ohio App. 3d 68 - Stepp v. Freeman’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably United National Insurance v. SST Fitness Corp. (2002), Dunn v. Bruzzese (2007)
5 federal appellate · 29 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 Legros v. Tarr · 13 Ohio App. 3d 367 - Lucas v. Costantini · 84 Ohio App. 3d 16 - Penwell v. Amherst Hospital · 104 Ohio App. 3d 704 - Point East Condominium Owners' Ass'n v. Cedar House Associates Co. · 86 Ohio App. 3d 628 - Sabin v. Graves
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'in implied-in-fact contracts the parties' meeting of the minds is shown by the surrounding circumstances, including the conduct and declarations of the parties, that make it inferable that the contract exists as a matter of tacit understanding.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“there are three categories of contracts: express, implied in fact, and implied in law. * * * Express and implied-in-fact contracts differ from contracts implied in law in that contracts implied in law are not true contracts,”
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.