13 Ohio App. 3d 93 - Porter v. Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
96 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 20 Ohio App. 3d 132 - Clemets v. Heston (1985), 31 Ohio App. 3d 124 - Mima v. City of Akron (1986)
96 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 Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. · Sidle v. Humphrey · Anderson v. Ceccardi · 3 Ohio App. 3d 19 - Keister v. Park Centre Lanes · 63 Ohio App. 2d 76 - Siegler v. Batdorff
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Unnatural' accumulation must refer to causes and factors other than the inclement weather conditions of low temperature, strong winds and drifting snow, i.e., to causes other than the meteorological forces of nature. By definition, then, the 'unnatural' is the manmade, the man-caused.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Unnatural" accumulation must refer to causes and factors other then the inclement weather conditions of low temperature, strong winds and drifting snow, i.e. to causes other than by the meteorological forces of nature. By definition, then, the "unnatural" is the man-made, the man-caused * * *. * * * [Slince the build-up of snow and ice during winter is regarded as a natural phenomenon, the law requires, at the very least, some evidence of an intervening act by the landlord (or a property owner) that perpetuates or aggravates the pre-existing, hazardous presence of ice and snow.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * Summary judgment shall be rendered forthwith if the pleading, depositions, answers to interrogatories, written admissions, affidavits, transcripts of evidence in the pending case, 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. A summary judgment shall not be rendered unless it appears from such evidence or stipulation and only therefrom, that reasonable minds can come to but one conclusion and that conclusion is adverse to the party against whom the motion for summary judgment is made, such party being entitled to have the evidence or stipulation construed most strongly in his favor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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