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Hoover v. Sumlin’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

261
cited by 261 later decisions
1
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

261 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 261 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Turner v. Central Local School District (1999), Jim's Steak House, Inc. v. City of Cleveland (1998)

261 state decisions

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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 Foman v. Davis · Peterson v. Teodosio · Roth Steel Products v. Sharon Steel Corp. · Mills v. Whitehouse Trucking Co. · 532 F. Supp. 734 - Bobbitt v. Victorian House, Inc.

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 261 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[T]he decision whether to grant a motion for leave to amend a pleading under Civ.R. 15(A) is within the discretion of the trial court. However, the language of Civ.R. 15(A) favors a liberal amendment policy and a motion for leave to amend should be granted absent a finding of bad faith, undue delay or undue prejudice to the opposing party.”
    18 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Rossetti v. Om Financial Life Ins. Co., 2008ca00083 (11-10-2008) · McCartney v. Universal Elec. Power, Unpublished Decision (4-6-2005)
  2. “[l]eave of court shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Columbus Southern Power Co. v. Snyder, Unpublished Decision (11-4-2004) · Charles v. Conrad, Unpublished Decision (11-17-2005)
  3. “[a] party may amend his pleading once as a matter of course at any time before a responsive pleading is served * * *. Otherwise a party many amend his pleading only by leave of court or by written consent of the adverse party. Leave of court shall be freely given when justice so requires.”
    6 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 26 Ohio App. 3d 139 - Birmingham Fire Insurance Co. v. River Downs Race Track · Ramudit v. Fifth Third Bank, Unpublished Decision (2-4-2005)

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.