65 Ohio App. 3d 30 - Turner v. Sinha’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Fackler v. Genetzky (1999), 375 Ill. App. 3d 445 - Loman v. Freeman (2006)
25 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 Seasons Coal Co. v. City of Cleveland · C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Littleton v. Good Samaritan Hospital & Health Center · Di Gildo v. Caponi · 70 Ohio App. 2d 93 - Richard v. Staehle
Most-quoted passages
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“Evid.R. 101(C)(8) provides that the Ohio Rules of Evidence are inapplicable to proceedings in the small claims division of a county or municipal court, not merely `relaxed.' The small claims division is a `layman's forum' and a judge or referee, while exercising some discretion, `* * * should not deny a layman justice through the formalistic application of the law of evidence.' Staff Note to Evid.R. 101. However, some reliable evidence is still required in order to prove a claim. Ray v. White (June 29, 1984), Madison App. No. CA84-01-003, unreported, 1984 Ohio App. LEXIS 10212 , .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`In order to establish negligence by a veterinarian, a party must show "that the injury complained of was caused by the doing of a particular thing that a veterinarian of ordinary skill, care and diligence would not have done under like or similar circumstances, or by the failure or omission to do some particular thing that such veterinarian would have done under like or similar circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because the rules of evidence are inapplicable in small claims court, we find no error by the trial court in allowing the hearsay statements into evidence. This is the type of case for which small claims courts were designed and we believe that formalistic application of the hearsay rules in this case would undermine the goals of the `layman's forum.' Turner had no expertise and her only alternative would be to subpoena the veterinarians into court. To require her to do so would place an undue burden on her and other small claims litigants similarly situated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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