Davis v. Loopco Industries, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 222 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 231 later decisions — most recently February 2026 · most notably Westfield Insurance v. Galatis (2003), State ex rel. Parsons v. Fleming (1994)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 222 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 Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Murphy v. City of Reynoldsburg · Alexander v. Buckeye Pipe Line Co. · Inland Refuse Transfer Co. v. Browning-Ferris Industries of Ohio, Inc. · Flaugher v. Cone Automatic Machine Co.
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 231 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) [N]o genuine issue as to any material fact remains to be litigated; (2) the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law; and (3) it appears from the evidence that reasonable minds can come to but one conclusion, and viewing the evidence most strongly in favor of the nonmoving party, that conclusion is adverse to the nonmoving party.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]f a contract is clear and unambiguous, then its interpretation is a matter of law and there is no issue of fact to be determined.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“factual determination of intent or reasonableness may be necessary to supply the missing term.”
2 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.