136 Ohio St. 95 - Pierce v. Johnson, Exr.’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably 140 Ohio App. 3d 494 - Brinkman v. Doughty (2000), Rehn v. Bingaman (1949)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 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.
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'all persons having rights in action against the decedent.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] contingent claim is one in which the liability thereon is `dependent upon some uncertain future event which may or may not occur.'”
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.