20 Ohio App. 3d 132 - Clemets v. Heston’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 163 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2024 · most notably Jeffers v. Olexo (1989), 71 Ohio App. 3d 46 - Saunders v. McFaul (1990)
5 federal appellate · 147 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 United States v. Mendenhall · Menifee v. Ohio Welding Products, Inc. · O'Brien v. University Community Tenants Union, Inc. · O'Day v. Webb · 58 Ohio St. 2d 221 - State ex rel. Alford v. Willoughby Civil Service Commission
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 163 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general ‘custodial negligence’ rule is that a jailer (or other custodial personnel, such as a sheriff or arresting officer) owes a duty to those in his custody to keep them safe and protect them from harm. The requisite standard of care is held to be that which is reasonable and ordinary for the health, care and well-being of the prisoner.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“duty to act affirmatively to protect the arrestee from harm and provide for his care and safety [that] continues for the duration of that relationship — i.e. , until the arrestee-prisoner is released from custody”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“no duty to prevent that which he could not have reasonably foreseen ***.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Marcum v. White
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.