Smith v. Padgett’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
165 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 173 later decisions — most recently November 2025 · most notably Tokles & Son, Inc. v. Midwestern Indemnity Co. (1992), Worthington City Schools Bd. of Edn. v. Franklin Cty. Bd. of Revision (Slip Opinion) (2014)
165 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 Pugh v. Holmes · 143 Ohio St. 541 - Bishop v. East Ohio Gas Co. · Vardeman v. Llewellyn · 7 Ohio App. 3d 122 - Berlinger v. Suburban Apartment Management Co. · 17 Ohio App. 3d 79 - Albreqt v. Chen
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 173 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] landlord who wrongfully withholds a portion of a tenant's security deposit is liable for damages equal to twice the amount wrongfully withheld and for reasonable attorney fees.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ohio law has long recognized that an owner of either real or personal property is, by virtue of such ownership, competent to testify as to the market value of the property.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“within thirty days after termination of the rental agreement and delivery of possession.”
9 later decisions 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.