42 Ohio App. 2d 1 - Swartz v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2020
15 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 22 Ohio App. 2d 135 - Trainor v. Deters · 23 Ohio App. 104 - Baltrunas v. Baubles · 25 Ohio App. 10 - Arnold v. Wylie
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘If you should find for the plaintiff, by a preponderance of the evidence — that is, if you should find the defendant committed adultery with the wife of the plaintiff, or that he had sexual intercourse with her by force — you would have the right to give what is called' punitive or exemplary damages; that is, damages by way of punishment, which may be a sum to deter others from like conduct. Damages, if any, however — and if in your best judgment it is proven that the acts took place — should not be excessive, or beyond the reasonable measure of such damages, and in no event more than is claimed in the petition.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The verdict of the jury for $5,000.00 punitive dam ages was excessive and manifestly against the weight of the evidence.””
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.