Dougherty v. Torrence’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. v. City of Cleveland (1988), 84 Ohio St. 3d 293 - Genaro. v. Central Transport, Inc. (1999)
40 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 Haverlack v. Portage Homes, Inc. · Bernardini v. Board of Education · 69 Ohio St. 2d 389 - State v. Jennings
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Although some sections of the Revised Code classify fire fighters as volunteer or paid, part-time or full-time and temporary or permanent, other sections of the code, including R.C. 701.02, merely use the generic terms ‘firemen’ and ‘members of the fire department.’ Apparently, the General Assembly uses the particular classifications when it seeks to differentiate among the various categories of fire fighters and the general terms when differentiation is not desired. The word ‘firemen’ would, therefore, include volunteer as well as paid fire fighters, unless otherwise specified.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Firemen shall not be personally liable for damages for .injury or loss to' persons or property and for death caused while engaged in the operation of a motor vehicle in the performance of a governmental function.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““* * * All errors assigned and briefed shall be passed upon by the court in writing, stating the reasons for the court’s decision as to each such error.””
1 later decision 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.