Irvine v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 424 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 429 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Smith v. Ameritech (1997), Tzangas, Plakas & Mannos v. Administrator (1995)
3 federal appellate · 424 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 Kisil v. City of Sandusky · Dudukovich v. Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority · 44 Ohio App. 2d 10 - Peyton v. Sun T v. & Appliances · Consolidated Management, Inc. v. City of Cleveland · 148 Ohio St. 511 - Brown-Brockmeyer Co. v. Roach
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 429 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“that which, to an ordinarily intelligent person, is a justifiable reason for doing or not doing a particular act.”
77 later decisions quote this exact passage“reasonable minds might reach different conclusions.”
26 later decisions quote this exact passage“has been discharged for just cause in connection with his work.”
23 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.