Behrle v. Beam’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably State ex rel. National Employee Benefit Services, Inc. v. Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County (1990), 22 Ohio App. 3d 65 - Bretton Ridge Homeowners Club v. Deangelis (1985)
1 federal appellate · 64 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 119 Ohio St. 596 - State Ex Rel. Ramey v. Davis · 119 Ohio App. 44 - Blenheim Homes, Inc. v. Mathews · 15 Ohio App. 2d 112 - Lauch v. Monning · 104 Ohio App. 69 - Barr Hotel Co. v. Lloyd MacKeown Buick Co. · 43 Ohio App. 173 - STATE Ex KENNELLY v. MILLER Et
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A]n action of forcible entry and detainer is an action at law based upon contract. It is an action to obtain possession or repossession of real property which had been transferred from one to another pursuant to contract * * *. Such a proceeding is not an action to determine ownership of the title to the property. * * *””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““We hold this to be so even though the amount that is involved in the contract is greater than the monetary jurisdiction of the municipal court, as long as no amount greater than the monetary jurisdiction of the court is claimed by the counter-claimant.” Behrle v. Beam (1983), 6 Ohio St. 3d 41, 45 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to hear and determine all legal and equitable remedies necessary or proper for a complete determination of the rights of the parties to [a] contract,”
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.