13 Ohio App. 3d 367 - Lucas v. Costantini’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 64 Ohio App. 3d 410 - Cuyahoga County Hospitals v. Price (1989), 119 Ohio App. 3d 68 - Stepp v. Freeman (1997)
6 federal appellate · 44 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.
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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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] contract implied in fact may be proved by showing that the circumstances surrounding the parties' transactions make it reasonably certain that an agreement was intended.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The law is said to 'imply' an obligation on the part of a person who benefits from the services * * * received to pay for the services * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he plaintiff must prove that the defendant either requested or assented to such conduct under conditions precluding an inference that the plaintiff acted gratuitously.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.