137 Ohio App. 3d 54 - Addis v. Howell’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably State v. Moore (Slip Opinion) (2016), Range v. Douglas (2014)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Gladon v. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority · 73 Ohio St. 3d 666 - Fahnbulleh v. Strahan · Garrett v. City of Sandusky · Perkins v. Norwood City Schools · 57 Ohio App. 3d 11 - Phipps v. City of Dayton
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]ome positive exercise of judgment that portrays a considered adoption of a particular course of conduct in relation to an object to be achieved is required in order to demonstrate an exercise of discretion.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“'with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner,'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“implies the failure to exercise any care for the safety of those to whom a duty of care is owing when the wrongdoer has knowledge of the great probability of harm to such persons which the exercise of care might avert, and exhibits a reckless disregard of consequences; it does not embrace intent to injury.”
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.