Pulley v. Malek’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Hampel v. Food Ingredients Specialties, Inc. (2000), Wagner v. Roche Laboratories (1999)
35 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 Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · 143 Ohio St. 426 - Taylor v. City of Cincinnati · Correia v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. · Columbus-Suburban Coach Lines, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission · 146 Ohio St. 657 - Bush v. Harvey Transfer Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘ * * * [E]rror in the charge of the court dealing exclusively with one of two or more complete and independent issues required to be presented to a jury in a civil action will be disregarded, if the charge in respect to another independent issue which will support the verdict of the jury is free from prejudicial error, unless it is disclosed by interrogatories or otherwise that the verdict is in fact based upon the issue to which the erroneous instruction related. ’ Bush v. Harvey Transfer Co. (1946), 146 Ohio St. 657 [ 33 O.O. 154 , 67 N.E.2d 851 ], paragraph three of the syllabus.” (Emphasis added.) Pulley, supra, 25 Ohio St.3d at 97 , 25 OBR at 147, 495 N.E.2d at 404 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Section 955.28, Revised Code, imposes an absolute liability on the owner or keeper of a dog for any damage or injury caused by that dog, subject only to exceptions contained in the second [now third] sentence of such section and the qualification that the actions of the dog were the proximate cause of the damage or injury.” Pulley, supra, 25 Ohio St.3d at 97 , 25 OBR at 147, 495 N.E.2d at 404 .”
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.