67 Ohio App. 2d 122 - Drake v. Menczer’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably 70 Ohio App. 2d 11 - Sherwin v. Cabana Club Apartments (1980), 116 Ohio App. 3d 595 - Taylor v. McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital (1996)
37 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 Sorin v. Board of Education · 48 Ohio App. 2d 85 - Swanson v. Swanson · Billington v. Cotner · 50 Ohio App. 2d 368 - Cassaro v. Cassaro · 52 Ohio App. 2d 379 - Laster 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““R.C. 5321.02 is part of the Ohio Landlords and Tenants Act, R.C. Chapter 5321, which significantly changed both the substantive and procedural provisions of former Ohio law. See Laster v. Bowman (1977), 52 Ohio App.2d 379 [ 6 O.O.3d 428 , 370 N.E.2d 767 ]. Included in the Act are provisions permitting the court to award attorneys’ fees to a party who succeeds in vindicating a right protected by the Act. * * * “The award of attorneys’ fees serves two purposes. First, it acts as an additional sanction against a person who violates the more important provisions of the Act. Secondly, it serves as encouragement to the private bar to provide representation to tenants who normally could not afford to hire an attorney.” (Footnotes omitted.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘(1) The time and labor required, the novelty and difficulty of the questions involved, and the skill requisite to perform the legal service properly. “ ‘(2) The likelihood, if apparent to the client, that the acceptance * * * will preclude other employment by the lawyer. “ ‘(3) The fee customarily charged in the locality for similar legal services. “ ‘(4) The amount involved and the results obtained. “ ‘(5) The time limitations imposed by the client or by the circumstances. “ ‘(6) The nature and length of the professional relationship with the client. “ ‘(7) The experience, reputation, and ability of the lawyer or lawyers performing the services. “ ‘(8) Whether the fee is fixed or contingent.’ ””
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.