State ex rel. Madison v. Cotner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State ex rel. Spirko v. Judges of the Court of Appeals (1986), Salemi v. Cleveland Metroparks (Slip Opinion) (2016)
31 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 60 Ohio App. 2d 348 - State, Ex Rel. Millington v. Weir · Billington v. Cotner · 117 Ohio St. 258 - Dillon v. City of Cleveland · State ex rel. Ohio National Bank v. Lancione · State ex rel. Perk v. Cotner
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except when otherwise specifically provided by these rules, pleadings need not be verified or accompanied by affidavit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.