137 Ohio App. 3d 658 - Lightbody v. Rust’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably 150 Ohio App. 3d 549 - Trangle v. Rojas (2002), 160 Ohio App. 3d 196 - Huntsman v. Aultman Hospital (2005)
60 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Nakoff v. Fairview General Hospital · Kala v. Aluminum Smelting & Refining Co. · 94 Ohio App. 3d 764 - Maust v. Palmer · 86 Ohio App. 3d 810 - State v. Today's Bookstore, Inc.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term `abuse of discretion' connotes more than an error of law or judgment; it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The following persons shall not testify in certain respects: {¶ 26} "(A) An attorney, concerning a communication made to him by his client in that relation or his advice to his client, except that the attorney may testify by express consent of the client or, if the client is deceased, by the express consent of the surviving spouse or the executor or administrator of the estate of the deceased client and except that, if the client voluntarily testifies or is deemed by section 2151.421 of the Revised Code to have waived any testimonial privilege under this division, the attorney may be compelled to testify on the same subject * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) The appealing party would not be afforded a meaningful or effective remedy by an appeal following final judgment as to all proceedings, issues, claims, and parties in the action.”
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.