Noble v. Colwell’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
717 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 719 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably 136 Ohio App. 3d 211 - Harkai v. Scherba Industries, Inc. (2000), State ex rel. White v. Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (1997)
717 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 Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. General Electric Company · Cold Metal Process Company v. United Engineering & Foundry Company · Chef Italiano Corp. v. Kent State Univ. · Whitaker-Merrell Co. v. Carl M. Geupel Construction Co. · Lantsberry v. Tilley Lamp 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 719 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n order that affects a substantial right made in a special proceeding[.]”
48 later decisions quote this exact passage“When more than one claim for relief is presented in an action whether as a claim, counterclaim, cross-claim, or third-party claim, and whether arising out of the same or separate transactions, or when multiple parties are involved, the court may enter final judgment as to one or more but fewer than all of the claims or parties only upon an express determination that there is no just reason for delay. In the absence of a determination that there is no just reason for delay, any order or other form of decision, however designated, which adjudicates fewer than all the claims or the rights and liabilities of fewer than all the parties, shall not terminate the action as to any of the claims or parties, and the order or other form of decision is subject to revision at any time before the entry of judgment adjudicating all the claims and the rights and liabilities of all the parties.”
44 later decisions quote this exact passage“A final order * * * is one disposing of the whole case or some separate and distinct branch thereof.”
31 later decisions 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.