144 Ohio App. 3d 389 - BECDIR Construction Co. v. Proctor’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “`decide actual controversies by a judgment which can be carried into effect, and not to give opinions upon moot questions or abstract propositions, or to declare principles or rules of law which cannot affect the matter in issue in the case before it.'”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brewer-Garrett Co. v. Metrohealth Sys., Unpublished Decision (10-5-2006) · In Re Brown, Unpublished Decision (5-19-2005)

2. “applies only in exceptional circumstances in which the following two factors are both present: (1) the challenged action is too short in its duration to be fully litigated before its cessation or expiration, and (2) there is a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party will be subject to the same action again.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Brown, Unpublished Decision (5-19-2005)

3. “[a]ny decision by this court regarding BECDIR's rights to declaratory or injunctive relief * * * would be purely academic.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Brewer-Garrett Co. v. Metrohealth Sys., Unpublished Decision (10-5-2006)