Sech v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 132 Ohio App. 3d 850 - Brokamp v. Mercy Hospital Anderson (1999), 179 Ohio App. 3d 736 - Bonace v. Springfield Township (2008)
1 federal appellate · 38 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 Anderson v. Ceccardi · Hirschbach v. Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. · Snyder v. Stanford · Briere v. Lathrop Co. · Wilfong v. Batdorf
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The effect of the trial court’s charge was that appellee could be operating her vehicle to the right of the solid white line delineating the right boundary of her lane of travel and still enjoy the benefit of the right of way over appellant’s decedent, so long as her tires remained on the pavement, rather than gravel. * * * “R.C. 4511.01(EE) defines ‘roadway,’ as follows: ‘ * * * that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except the berm or shoulder. * * * ’ “R.C. 4511.01(GG) states: ‘ “Laned highway” means a highway the roadway of which is divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for vehicular traffic.’ “R.C. 4511.33 provides that: “ ‘Whenever any roadway has been divided into two or more clearly marked lanes for traffic * * * the following rules apply: “ ‘(A) A vehicle * * * shall be driven, as nearly as is practicable, entirely within a single lane or line of traffic and shall not be moved from such lane or line until the driver has first ascertained that such movement can be made with safety.’ “The purpose of the solid white line near the right edge of the paved portion of the highway is to designate the portion of the highway designed for vehicular travel.” (Emphasis added.) Id., 6 Ohio St.3d at 467-468 , 6 OBR at 519-520, 453 N.E.2d at 710 (C. Brown, J., dissenting.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent““ * * * [Tjhere is no evidence at any point in this case that the curved guardrail, which struck Sech, was resting between the white line and the end of the pavement. Nor is there any evidence that appellee operated the bus on or over the white line. Accepting appellee’s version of this accident, she never operated the bus to the right of the white line. Accepting appellant’s version of this accident, the bus driver clearly drove outside the highway and roadway, as defined by statute, before hitting the curved guardrail which struck decedent. “Appellant’s version of the accident was clearly rejected by the jury in its answer to the first interrogatory concerning appellee’s alleged negligence. Hence, even if we assumed that the trial court’s instruction was erroneous, there is no showing of prejudice here.” Id. at 465 , 6 OBR at 517-518, 453 N.E.2d at 708 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that portion of a highway improved, designed, or ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except the berm or shoulder. If a highway includes two or more separate roadways the term `roadway' means any such roadway separately but not all such roadway collectively.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.