30 Ohio App. 3d 267 - Bennett v. Heidinger’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2025
10 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 C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Alexander v. Buckeye Pipe Line Co. · 147 Ohio St. 461 - McBride v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America · 92 Misc. 2d 113 - Striegel v. Tofano
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The relevant inquiry is the manifestation of intent of the parties as seen through the eyes of a reasonable observer, rather than the subjective intention of the parties.”
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.