26 Ohio App. 2d 50 - Roberts v. Bohn’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 1991
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Bentzler v. Braun · Miller v. Miller · Pryor v. Webber · 140 Ind. App. 139 - Kavanagh v. Butorac · 129 Ohio St. 512 - Swoboda v. Brown
Most-quoted passages
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“[W]e prefer the authority of the majority of the cases in other states which is that the determination as to whether an occupant of an automobile should or should not be required to wear a seat belt should be left to the Legislature. In the absence of a statute to the contrary, there is no common law duty imposed upon an occupant of an automobile to wear a seat belt in ordinary vehicular travel, and the failure to use an available seat belt is not contributory negligence as a matter of law. Therefore, evidence of the failure of an occupant of an automobile to use an available seat belt is generally not admissible in an action for personal injuries arising out of an automobile accident.”
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.