Friedman v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Burr v. Board of County Commissioners (1986), Ohio Hospital Ass'n v. Ohio Department of Human Services (1991)
3 federal appellate · 74 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 Burger Brewing Co. v. Liquor Control Commission · 152 Ohio St. 287 - American Life & Accident Ins. v. Jones · Scot Lad Foods, Inc. v. Secretary of State · 148 Ohio St. 188 - State Ex Rel. Williams v. Glander · Boggs v. State
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A major purpose of the Court of Claims Act was to centralize the filing and adjudication of all claims against the state. The Court of Claims was created to become the sole trial-level adjudicator of claims against the state, with the narrow exception that specific types of suits that the state subjected itself prior to 1975 could be tried elsewhere as if the defendant was a private party. To permit the court of common pleas to have jurisdiction over claims such as the one herein would contravene this purpose. * * * ” (Emphasis added.) Id. at 87-88 , 18 OBR at 124, 480 N.E.2d at 84 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The state hereby waives its immunity from liability * * * and consents to be sued, and have its liability determined, in the court of claims created in this chapter in accordance with the same rules of law applicable to suits between private parties * * *. To the extent that the state has previously consented to be sued, this chapter has no applicability.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Inasmuch as this cause of action involves a civil suit for money damages against the state, the Court of Claims has original, exclusive jurisdiction. * * * ” See, also, Friedman v. Johnson (1985), 18 Ohio St.3d 85, 87 , 18 OBR 122, 124, 480 N.E.2d 82, 84 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.