Smith v. Vaughn’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
April 2023
most recently cited
24 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dresher v. Burt · Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Village of Grafton v. Ohio Edison Co. · Hambleton v. R.G. Barry Corp. · 133 Ohio St. 520 - Hummel v. Hummel
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'a person has and retains money or benefits which in justice and in equity belong to another.'”
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.