53 Ohio App. 375 - Motz v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2023
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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A waiver is the voluntary surrender or relinquishment of a known legal right by agreement, supported by a consideration, or by a failure to exercise a privilege to claim a right when the acts and conduct connected with such failure are such as to plainly indicate an intention not to claim such right, although no one is misled to his injury by such failure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the acts and conduct of a party inconsistent with an intention to claim the right have been such as to mislead the other party to his prejudice, and thereby estop the party having the right from insisting upon it.”
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.