Rohde v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
464 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 464 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Eastley v. Volkman (2012), State v. Maurer (1984)
464 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 137 Ohio St. 448 - Steiner v. Custer · 154 Ohio St. 491 - Klever v. Reid Bros. Express, Inc. · Price v. McCoy Sales & Service, Inc. · 147 Ohio St. 221 - Youngstown Municipal Ry. Co. v. City of Youngstown · 135 Ohio St. 170 - Hoffman v. Knollman
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 464 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Abuse of discretion,' in relation to the [disposition] of a motion for a new trial[,] implies an unreasonable, arbitrary or unconscionable attitude on the part of the court.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A motion for a new trial with reference to the weight or sufficiency of the evidence is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court and imposes upon that court a duty to review the evidence and pass upon the credibility of witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Where a trial court is authorized to grant a new trial for a reason which requires the exercise of a sound discretion, the order granting a new trial may be reversed only upon a showing of an abuse of discretion by the trial court.”
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.