State ex rel. Pearson v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably Goldstein v. Christiansen (1994), State ex rel. Bradford v. Trumbull County Court (1992)
65 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 State ex rel. Tilford v. Crush · State ex rel. Gilla v. Fellerhoff · City of Columbus v. Adams · City of Middleburg Heights v. Brown · State ex rel. Add Venture, Inc. v. Gillie
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Absent a patent and unambiguous lack of jurisdiction, a court having general jurisdiction of the subject matter of an action has authority to determine its own jurisdiction. A party challenging the court's jurisdiction has an adequate remedy at law via appeal from the court's holding that it has jurisdiction.'”
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.