40 Ohio App. 2d 197 - Stephens v. Boothby’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2023
23 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.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The task to be utilized in granting a motion to dismiss for a failure to ■ state a claim upon which relief can be granted is whether it appears beyond doubt that the plaintiff can prove no set of facts in support of his claim which would entitle him to relief.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cannot be raised by [a] motion [to dismiss].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[r]es judicata is an affirmative defense,”
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.