34 Ohio App. 3d 251 - Barton v. Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 173 Ohio App. 3d 284 - Jarupan v. Hanna (2007), 65 Ohio App. 3d 139 - Ohio Historical Society v. General Maintenance & Engineering Co. (1989)
59 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. Dehass · Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Velotta v. Leo Petronzio Landscaping, Inc. · 52 Ohio App. 2d 281 - Tibbs v. National Homes Construction Corp.
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he repair of deficient work may involve both additional activities necessitated by the deficient work, and activities previously omitted, but necessary, to proper performance in a workmanlike manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he duty to perform in a workmanlike manner is imposed by common law upon builders and contractors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The trial court erred as a matter of law and fact in its holding and failure to grant defendant’s motion to dismiss, that defendant breached the construction contract by failing to make repairs to the house in a workmanlike manner, and such holding by the court is against the manifest weight of the evidence.””
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.