124 Ohio App. 3d 562 - Drawl v. Cornicelli’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Torres v. El Paso Electric Co. (1999), 142 Ohio App. 3d 384 - White v. Ford Motor Co. (2001)
2 district · 48 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 Dresher v. Burt · Moskovitz v. Mt. Sinai Medical Center · Williams v. First United Church of Christ · Smith v. Howard Johnson Co. · Henry v. Deen
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) pending or probable litigation involving the plaintiff, (2) knowledge on the part of defendant that litigation exists or is probable, (3) willful destruction of evidence by defendant designed to disrupt the plaintiffs case, (4) disruption of the plaintiffs case, and (5) damages proximately caused by the defendant’s acts.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage““Summary judgment shall be rendered forthwith if the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, written admissions, affidavits, transcripts of evidence, and written stipulations of fact, if any, timely filed in the action, show that there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. No evidence or stipulation may be considered except as stated in this rule.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the tort of interference with or destruction of evidence requires a showing of a willful ( i.e., wrongful ) destruction, alteration or concealment of evidence.”
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.