Brown v. Martinelli’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Jacobson v. Kaforey (Slip Opinion) (2016), Marrone v. Philip Morris USA, Inc. (2006)
27 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 149 Ohio St. 231 - Wachendorf v. Shaver · 136 Ohio St. 526 - State Ex Rel. O'Neil v. Griffith · 150 Ohio St. 34 - Blackwell v. Bowman
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * a sale of consumer goods or services in which the seller or a person acting for the seller engages in a personal solicitation of the sale at a residence of the buyer, including solicitations in response to or following an invitation by the buyer, and the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase is there given to the seller or a person acting *Page 10 for the seller, or in which the buyer's agreement or offer to purchase is made at a place other than the seller's place of business. * * *”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“basic presumption in statutory construction [is] that the General Assembly is not presumed to do a vain or useless thing, and that when language is inserted in a statute it is inserted to accomplish some definite purpose.”
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.