Chupka v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 76 Ohio App. 3d 755 - City of Cleveland v. Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge No. 8 (1991), Westlake Civil Service Commission v. Pietrick (2015)
34 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 State v. Ishmail · Lincoln Properties, Inc. v. Goldslager · 20 Ohio App. 3d 327 - Newsome v. Municipal Civil Service Commission of Columbus · 33 Ohio App. 2d 177 - In Re Locke · 9 Ohio App. 3d 243 - Carey v. Carey
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The scope of a trial de novo is governed by the provisions of R.C. Chapter 2505 to the extent they are applicable. R.C. 2505.21,[ 1 ] which is among the applicable provisions, provides in part as follows: “ ‘An appeal taken on questions of law and fact entitles the party to a hearing and determination of the facts de novo which shall be upon the same or amended pleadings. The court shall review the final order, judgment or decree upon such part of the record made in the trial court as any party may present to the court and such additional evidence as upon application in the interest of justice the court may authorize to be taken, such evidence to be presented in the manner and form prescribed by the court.’ “Thus, in a trial de novo the court of common pleas is empowered to ‘* * *substitute its own judgment on the facts for that of the commission, based upon the court’s independent examination and determination of conflicting issues of fact. * * *’ The ‘trial,’ in a trial de novo, is the ‘independent judicial examination and determination of conflicting issues of fact and law, notwithstanding the evidence before the appellate court consists of the record of the proceedings in the lower tribunal.’ The trial is not necessarily ‘* * *a second event where the witnesses personally reappear and reaffirm or respeak their previous testimony. * * *’ In fact, evidence in addition to the transcript and record of the commission’s proceedings may only be admitted with the express permiss”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.