Marshall v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
211 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 213 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Arbino v. Johnson & Johnson (2007), Groob v. KeyBank (2006)
211 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 133 Ohio St. 345 - Simko v. Miller
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 213 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A charge to the jury should be a plain, distinct and unambiguous statement of the law as applicable to the case made before the jury by the proof adduced.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] charge ought not only be correct, but it should also be adapted to the case and so explicit as not to be misunderstood or misconstrued by the jury.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“separate and definitely state *** the issues of fact made in the pleadings, accompanied by such instructions as to each issue as the nature of the case may require.”
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.