167 Ohio St. 3d 645 - Godwin v. Erb’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
February 2016
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Menifee v. Ohio Welding Products, Inc. · Smiddy v. Wedding Party, Inc. · Armstrong v. Best Buy Co. · State ex rel. Parsons v. Fleming
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.
“[t]he attendant circumstances must, taken together, divert the attention of the pedestrian, significantly enhance the danger of the defect, and contribute to the fall.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“any distraction that would come to the attention of a pedestrian in the same circumstances and reduce the degree of care an ordinary person would exercise at the time.”
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.