155 Ohio App. 3d 218 - Cooper v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably 176 Ohio App. 3d 54 - Camp St. Mary's Ass'n of the West Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Church, Inc. v. Otterbein Homes (2008), Had Enterprises v. Galloway (2011)
41 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 63 Ohio App. 2d 34 - Central Motors Corp. v. City of Pepper Pike · Liberty Mutual Insurance v. Industrial Commission · Heiman v. Parrish · 127 Wis. 2d 318 - Brown v. Thomas · 89 Ohio App. 3d 181 - Smith v. Shafer
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Many gifts are made for reasons that sour with the passage of time' Unfortunately, gift law does not allow a donor to recover/revoke an inter vivos gift simply because his or her reasons for giving it have 'soured.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n order to prevail on an unjust enrichment theory, the plaintiff must establish three elements:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[EJurichment of the do-nee is the intended purpose of a gift, [therefore,] there is nothing 'unjust' about allowing [the donee] to retain the gifts she received . in the absence of fraud, overreaching or some other cireumstance.”
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.