138 Ohio App. 3d 552 - Irving v. Austin’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently March 2026
12 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. · Yeager v. Local Union 20, Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen & Helpers of America · 61 Ohio App. 3d 127 - Lorain National Bank v. Saratoga Apartments · 13 Ohio App. 3d 7 - Viock v. Stowe-Woodward Co.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Consequently, in order to sustain a motion for summary judgment predicated upon immunity bestowed by R.C. 2744.03 (A)(6)(b), a court must conclude that the record is devoid of evidence tending to show that the political subdivision employee acted wantonly or recklessly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with malicious purpose, in bad faith, or in a wanton or reckless manner.”
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.