40 Ohio App. 2d 559 - Rhoades v. Rhoades’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 24 Ohio App. 3d 22 - Cohen & Co. v. Messina (1985), 143 Ohio App. 3d 516 - Reedy v. Cincinnati Bengals, Inc. (2001)
34 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 123 Ohio St. 76 - Corbett v. Corbett · 7 Ohio App. 2d 4 - Smith v. Smith · 24 Ohio App. 2d 149 - Beiter v. Beiter · 32 Ohio App. 2d 79 - Tressler v. Tressler · 140 Ohio St. 445 - Mennel Milling Co. v. Slosser
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is elementary that neither the promise to do a thing, nor the actual doing of it will constitute a sufficient consideration to support a contract if it is merely a thing which the party is already bound to do, either by law or a subsisting contract with the other party.””
4 later decisions 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.