47 Ohio App. 3d 125 - Johnson v. Hammond’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““When granted on the evidence. When a motion for a directed verdict has been properly made, and the trial court, after construing the evidence most strongly in favor of the party against whom the motion is directed, finds that upon any determinative issue reasonable minds could come to but one conclusion upon the evidence submitted and that conclusion is adverse to such party, the court shall sustain the motion and direct a verdict for the moving party as to that issue.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 68 Ohio App. 3d 491 - Johnson v. Hammond

2. ““The plaintiffs must present evidence to show that the injury would not have occurred in the ordinary course of events if ordinary care had been observed before an instruction on res ipsa loquitur would be justified. This showing necessarily requires expert evidence * * *.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 139 Ohio App. 3d 788 - Golec v. Fairview General Hospital

3. “the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur does not obviate the requirement that the plaintiffs provide expert medical testimony on the standard of care that is ordinarily observed in these circumstances.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Marcum v. Holzer Clinic, Inc., Unpublished Decision (7-22-2004)