Colley v. Bazell’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
401 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 401 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Rose Chevrolet, Inc. v. Adams (1988), 33 Ohio St. 3d 75 - Griffey v. Rajan (1987)
401 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 GTE Automatic Electric, Inc. v. ARC Industries, Inc. · Tozer v. Charles A. Krause Milling Co. · 53 Ohio St. 2d 9 - Doddridge v. Fitzpatrick · Hinz v. Northland Milk & Ice Cream Co. · Greenspahn v. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, Inc.
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 401 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“strike a proper balance between the conflicting principles that litigation must be brought to an end and justice should be done.”
38 later decisions quote this exact passage“any other reason justifying relief from the judgment.”
32 later decisions quote this exact passage“A fourth, but not decisive, circumstance is the experience and understanding of the defendant with respect to litigation matters.”
6 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.