55 Ohio App. 2d 59 - Epling v. Pacific Intermountain Express Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably McHale v. W.B.S. Corp. (1982), 68 Ohio App. 3d 72 - Deoma v. Shaker Heights (1990)
5 federal appellate · 36 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 Campbell v. Yellow Cab Co. · Hruska v. Severance Specialty, Inc. · Widmeyer v. Felton · 117 Ohio App. 183 - Rice v. Yellow Cab 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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(4) 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.” See, also, O’Day v. Webb (1972), 29 Ohio St.2d 215, 220 , 58 O.O.2d 424, 427 , 280 N.E.2d 896, 899 .”
2 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.