124 Ohio App. 3d 396 - Ward v. Hengle’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2022
2 federal appellate · 9 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. · State v. Williams · Posin v. A. B. C. Motor Court Hotel, Inc. · Preston v. Murty · Little Forest Medical Center v. Ohio Civil Rights Commission
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.
“Punitive damages are intended to deter conduct resulting from a mental state that is 'so callous in its disregard for the rights and safety of others that society deems it intolerable.'”
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.