Fortner v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

402 state decisions

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 405 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “* * * it is the duty of every judicial tribunal to decide actual controversies between parties legitimately affected by specific facts and to render judgments which can be carried into effect. It has become settled judicial responsibility for courts to refrain from giving opinions on abstract propositions and to avoid the imposition by judgment of premature declarations or advice upon potential controversies.”

   11 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Poppe, Unpublished Decision (2-20-2007) · Hirsch v. Trw, Inc., Unpublished Decision (3-11-2004)

2. “[e]very final order, adjudication, or decision of any * * * commission * * * of any political subdivision of the state may be reviewed by the court of common pleas of the county in which the principal office of the political subdivision is located * * *.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 100 Ohio App. 3d 302 - Peters v. City of Jackson · State ex rel. McArthur v. DeSouza (1992), Ohio St.3d

3. ““* * * furthermore, it seems logical that any order which effectuates or employs a rule, amendment or rescission that is unreasonable or unlawful could not be an order ‘in accordance with law’ as that language appears in R. C. 119.12. * * *””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 27 Ohio App. 2d 91 - Clermont National Bank v. Edwards