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34 Ohio App. 3d 218 - Desantis v. Smedley’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
September 2006
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Cohen v. Lamko, Inc. · 68 Ohio App. 2d 255 - Friedland v. Lipman · 103 Ohio App. 233 - Logsdon v. Main-Nottingham Investment 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[t]he interest was in the nature of compensatory damages not a penalty. It is within the discretion of the trier of fact to include an element of interest within the damage award.”
    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.