151 Ohio App. 3d 409 - Covington v. Lucia’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Aerel Srl v. Pcc Airfoils Llc (2006), Savedoff v. Access Group, Inc. (2008)
1 federal appellate · 30 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 Aultman Hospital Ass'n v. Community Mutual Insurance · Foster Wheeler Enviresponse, Inc. v. Franklin County Convention Facilities Authority · Williams v. Aetna Finance Co. · United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co. v. St. Elizabeth Medical Center · Potti v. Duramed Pharmaceuticals, 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Contractual language is `ambiguous' only where its meaning cannot be determined from the four corners of the agreement or where the language is susceptible of two or more reasonable interpretations.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not use extrinsic evidence to create an ambiguity; rather, the ambiguity must be patent, i.e., apparent on the face of the contract.”
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.