Oswald v. Connor’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Murphy v. Carrollton Manufacturing Co. (1991), Ryan v. Connor (1986)
78 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 143 Ohio St. 113 - Aiken v. Industrial Commission · Swanton v. Stringer · 125 Ohio St. 465 - Weaver v. Industrial Commission · 126 Ohio St. 251 - Industrial Commission v. Palmer
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[i]f the evidence before that [trial] court is sufficient to support the result reached, [the reviewing] court will not substitute its judgment.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he proximate cause of an event is that which in a natural and continuous sequence, unbroken by any new, independent cause, produces that event and without which that event would not have occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[T]his court finds that the trial court’s determination — that the combined result of the pre-existing disease [coronary artery disease], the occupational disease and Oswald’s negative psychosomatic reactions directly and proximately caused his death at a substantially earlier time than would have been the case without the occupational disease — is supported by the record.” 16 Ohio St.3d at 44 , 16 O.B.R. at 525 , 476 N.E.2d at 664 .”
2 later decisions 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.