47 Ohio App. 2d 103 - Rossman v. Rosssman’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Inland Refuse Transfer Co. v. Browning-Ferris Industries of Ohio, Inc. (1984), Mauzy v. Kelly Services, Inc. (1996)
54 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 Hickman v. Taylor · United States v. Procter & Gamble Co. · Mary G. Roebling v. Robert B. Anderson, Secretary of the Treasury · Irving S. Goldman v. Checker Taxi Company, Inc. · 28 Ohio App. 2d 43 - Hlavin v. W. E. Plechaty 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n appellate court will reverse the decision of a trial court that extinguishes a party's right to discovery if the trial court's decision is improvident and affects the discovering party's substantial rights.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[An] exercise of judicial discretion that rewards a party's willful obstruction of his opponent's good faith discovery efforts is suspect. Such an exercise of judicial discretion must be justified by a weightier interest than expediency. * * * An appellate court will reverse the decision of a trial court that extinguishes a party's right to discovery if the trial court's decision is improvident and affects the discovering party's substantial right.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In doing so, the rules exemplify a policy of affording attorneys every opportunity and advantage in preparing their case before trial.”
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.